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Neuro Test 1
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Graduate
02/06/2010

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Reflex circuit
Definition
Conveys an impulse that directs an involuntary response
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Relay circuit
Definition
conveys an impulse that is transferred from one part of the nervous system to another
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What are the names given to neronal cell bodies and their locations?
Definition

Pools- nuceli

clumps- ganglia (PNS)

layers- laminae

Term

What are the names given to bundles of axons and thier locations?

 

Definition

1.Tracts(faciculi), peduncles, lemnisci(CNS) 

 

2. Nerves(PNS)

 

 

Term
 Afferent
Definition
Sensory information from periphery towards CNS
Term
Efferent
Definition
Action potentials propagated from CNS toward periphery
Term

Dura mater (brain)

 

Definition

* two fused layers

 

*inner layer folds to partially partion the brain

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Arachnoid mater (brain)
Definition

* thin losely covers the brain

* outer layer attaches to dura

*inner layer has many cobweb like projections that attach to the pia mater

 

Term

Pia Mater (brain)

 

Definition

* invests the brain

*highly vascular

-supply brain

 

Term
Dura mater (spine)
Definition

Outer layer

-forms perisosteal lining of vertebral foramina

Inner layer

loosely invests spinal cord cuffs around spinal nerves

Term
Arachnoid Mater (spine)
Definition

- thin

-loosley covers spinal cord

-outer layer attaches to dura

- inner layer attaches to pia

Term

Pia mater (spine)

 

Definition

-invests spinal cord

*highly vascular

-supply cord

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Epidural space

 

Definition
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