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22 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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What are the 4 ventricles of the brain?
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Left and Right Lateral, 3rd, 4th Ventricles
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What connects the 3rd & 4th Ventricles?
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Cerebral Aqueduct of Silvius
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What connects the lateral and 3rd ventricles?
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Foramen of Monroe
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What does the anterior communicating artery connect?
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The left and right anterior cerebral artery
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What are the important branches of the Internal Carotid?
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Middle Cerebral
Anterior Cerebral Anterior Communicating |
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What do the posterior communicating arteries connect?
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The middle cerebral (from I.C.) to the posterior cerebral (from Vertebral)
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What forms the Basilar artery?
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The left and right vertebral arteries
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The microenvironment of the CNS neurons depends upon the transfer of nutrients and wastes between two vascular interfaces:
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Blood Brain Barrier
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What limits the presence of fenestrations in the capillary walls of the blood brain barrier?
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Zona-occludens and tight junctions
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What is caused by the dura reflecting off of the side walls of the skull and as it does it forms channels between some of these folds which function like veins?
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Formation of venous sinuses
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What acts as one-way valves, look like bubbles on top of the dura mater; return CSF into the venous system in the superior saggital sinus?
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Arachnoid Granulations
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What is deep to the arachnoid and superficial to the pia mater & contains ultrafiltrate of blood and CSF?
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Sub-Arachnoid space
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What is the spider web-like membrane which attaches to the underlying pia mater; helps contain CSF; Also works as a blood brain barrier?
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Arachnoid Mater
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What is the one cell layer thick lining of the surface of the brain?
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Pia Mater
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What does the anterior communicating artery connect?
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the left and right anterior cerebral arteries
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What does the posterior communicating artery connect?
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The middle and posterior cerebral arteries
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What arteries in the brain do the vertebral arteries supply?
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Basilar artery
Posterior Cerebral Arteries Posterior Communicating Arteries |
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What arteries in the brain do the Internal Carotid arteries supply?
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Middle Cerebral Arteries
Anterior Cerebral Arteries Anterior Communicating Arteries |
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CSF is a ______ of blood
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Ultrafiltrate
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What are the components of the Blood-CSF Barrier?
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Choroidal Endothelium (ependymal cells)
Zona Adherens Endothelium Meningeal cell process pia basement membrane |
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What are the Mater layers?
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Dura
Arachnoid Subarachnoid Space Pia |
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What is the superior sagital sinus between?
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Dura & Arachnoid Mater
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