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Membranes and parts of the brain
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Biology
Undergraduate 3
10/12/2011

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Cerebral Hemisphere
Definition
top region of the brain
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corpus callosum
Definition
white hook like structure, connects the two hemispheres
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septum pellucidum
Definition
thin membrane that seperates the two lateral hemispheres
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gyri
Definition
bumps on the surface of the brain
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lateral sulcus
Definition
thiss that seperates the temproal and parietal lobes
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central sulcus
Definition
divides the brain into anterior and posterior parts, seperates the frontal and parietal
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longitudinal fissure
Definition
divides the two cerebral hemispheres
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transverse fissure
Definition
sepreates the cerebrum and cerebellum
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dura mater
Definition

outer layer-endosteal, inner layer-menningeal 

made of dense irregular CT

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arachnoid mater
Definition

below the menningeal layer

made of simple squamous

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subdural space
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seprerates the menningeal layer and the arachnoid layer
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pia mater
Definition

covering over the brain

made of areolar CT

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subarachnoid space
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seperates the arachnoid mater and pia mater
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dural sinuses
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seperates endosteal layer from menningeal layer
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falx cerebri
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tissue that seperates the two hemispheres
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tentorium cerebelli
Definition
tissue that seperates the cerebrum and cerebellum, inside the transverse fissure
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falx cerebelli
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seperates the two cerebellar hemispheres
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