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        | opening of central canal into fourth ventricle... V at mid-medulla (splits medulla into open half and closed half) |  | 
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        | bulge representing the gracile nucleus just inferior to the obex |  | 
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        | bulge representing the cuneate nucleus just lateral to the gracile tubercle |  | 
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        | ascending dorsal white column (lateral) for sensory regions from trunk to neck |  | 
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        | ascending dorsal white column (medial) for sensory regions from foot to hip |  | 
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        | middle cerebellar peduncle |  | Definition 
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        | cranial nerves 7 and 8 emerge here |  | 
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        | descending motor tracts from cortex to midbrain, pons, medula and spinal cord |  | 
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        | nerve rootlets of 9 and 10 dorsal to olive, hypoglossal nerve emerges from the ventral border of olive |  | 
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        | What nerves exit the cerebellapontine angle? |  | Definition 
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        | Where does the trigeminal nerve exit? |  | Definition 
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        | describe the positioning of motor and sensory tracts in brainstem |  | Definition 
 
        | motor tract in the brainstem are generaly ventral (pyramids-corticospinal) or midline structures (tectospinal and reticulospinal tracts)  sensory tracts are dorsal (midline Medial lemniscus) and lateral(upper brainstem ML and ALS,and SCT) |  | 
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        | name structures in caudal medulla |  | Definition 
 
        | central canal, gracile nucleus and fasciculus, cuneate nucleus and fasciculus, spinal trigeminal nucleus and tract, pyramidal decussation |  | 
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        | superior closed medulla structures |  | Definition 
 
        | obex, large G/C nucleii, internal arcuate fibers, forming ML, inferior olivary nucleus, pyramids, hypoglossus nucleus(dorsal midine) |  | 
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        | 4th ventricle, choiroid plexus, hypoglossal nucleus, inferior to XII nucleus is MLF --> tectospinal tract beneath it), inferior cerebellar peduncle (plus nucleii of VIII), medial lemniscus, inferior olivary nucleus (full) |  | 
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        | rostral open medulla structures |  | Definition 
 
        | vestibular nuclei and cochlear nucleii wrapping around ICP (restiform body) |  | 
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        | cerebellar vermis, superior cerebellar peduncle, 4th ventricle, middle cerebellar peduncle, pyramid (assembling) |  | 
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        | upper part of pontomedullary junction |  | Definition 
 
        | fibers of VII, facial colliculus, abducens nucleus, facial nucleus, central tegmental tract, medial lemniscus |  | 
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        | what do VII fibers form in floor of 4th ventricle |  | Definition 
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        | periventricular gray matter, medial leminiscus, pontocerebellar fibers, pontine nuclei, corticospinal fibers |  | 
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        | what orientation does medial lemnisicus have in caudal pons? |  | Definition 
 
        | horizontal (legs to arms --- lateral to medial) |  | 
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        | narrowing 4th ventricle, central gray matter, middle cerebellar peduncle |  | 
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        | describe the make-up of the pontine basis |  | Definition 
 
        | pontine nucleii, corticospinal fibers, corticopontine fibers |  | 
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        | pontomesencephalic junction |  | Definition 
 
        | cerebral aqueduct, midbrain tectume, central gray is large, trochlear nucleus ventral to central gray, SCP decussation |  | 
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        | at the transition point between midbrain and pons what emerges from the pontine basis |  | Definition 
 
        | crux cerebri -- which is the caudal aspect of the cerbral peduncle which will become disorganized in pontine basis and reorganized into pyramids |  | 
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        | superior colliculus, interpenduncular fossa |  | 
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        | name the four block of crus cerebri |  | Definition 
 
        | corticopontine, corticospinal fibers, corticonuclear fibers, corticopontine fibers |  | 
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        | rostral midbrain diencephalon junction |  | Definition 
 
        | pineal gland, pulvinar, medial geniculate nucleus, medial lemniscus, red nucleus |  | 
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        | what do the medial geniculate and the pulvinar belong to? |  | Definition 
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        | what system is the red nucleus a part of? |  | Definition 
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        | vertebral arteries unite into what? |  | Definition 
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        | what are the primary sources for blood supply to brainstem? |  | Definition 
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        | supplies rostral/dorsal medulla;comes off vertebral arteries before union |  | 
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        | supply caudal/dorsolateral medulla; posterior spinal artery comes of PICA as they course anterior to posterior |  | 
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        | supplies dorsolateral tegmental pons; 1st arteries to come off basilar artery |  | 
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        | supplies dorsal/caudal midbrain |  | 
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        | post cerebral arteries; supplies rostral midbrain |  | 
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        | how do arteries enter brainstem?  name territories |  | Definition 
 
        | paramedian territory, dorsolateral territory, ventrolateral territory |  | 
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        | what is the placement of long circumfrential versus short circumfrential branches |  | Definition 
 
        | long --> dorsolateral short --> ventrolateral
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        | a neural tissue in the tegmentum of brainstem that fills in all the spaces around nucleii and tracts |  | 
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        | what fibers does the midbrain basis contain? |  | Definition 
 
        | corticopontine, coritcobulbar, and corticospinal |  | 
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        | where are the cranial nerve nucleii in the brainstem? |  | Definition 
 
        | tegmentum (also contains major ascending sensory tracts and two integrative tracts--MLF and central tegmental tract) |  | 
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        | order of cranial nerve nucleii from medial to lateral in brainstem |  | Definition 
 
        | GSE, GVE, SVE, SVA, GVA,GSA, SSA ---------------------------->
 alar and dorsal plates splay out laterally in the brainstem
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        | describe what is ventrolateral to the cuneate nucleus |  | Definition 
 
        | the spinal trigeminal tract and nucleus (ventrolateral to that is the SCT and ALS) |  | 
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        | transverse fiber bundles in pontine basis |  | Definition 
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        | what does the medial lemniscus look like at the pontomedullary junction |  | Definition 
 
        | central, globular and just beginning to slip laterally |  | 
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        | what is mixed up with the medial lemniscus midline at the pontomedullary junction? |  | Definition 
 
        | trapezoid (crossing fibers of auditory system) |  | 
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        | which two cranial nucleii emerge in the caudal pons? |  | Definition 
 
        | abducens (dorsal and lateral to the MLF) and facial nucleus (ventrolateral to abducens |  | 
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        | a bump in the dorsal surface of caudal pons where facial fibers pass over abducens nucleus |  | 
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        | where is the central tegmental tract? |  | Definition 
 
        | in the central tegument of the pons, lateral to the MLF at pontomedullary junction |  | 
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        | at mid-pons where is the superior cerebellar peduncle? |  | Definition 
 
        | it is the pontine tectum; lateral walls of the fourth ventricle; moved partially down into the pontine tegmentum |  | 
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        | what system is the lateral lemniscus a part of?  where is it added on? |  | Definition 
 
        | it is a part of the auditory system and it is added on to the later ALS in mid-pons |  | 
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        | two nucleii in midpons tegument belonging to trigeminal system |  | Definition 
 
        | chief sensory nucleus and trigeminal motor nucleus |  | 
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        | where do we begin to see periventricular gray matter? |  | Definition 
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        | what is the shape of the fourth ventricle in the rostral pons? |  | Definition 
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        | list structures of pontomesencephalic junction from dorsal to ventral |  | Definition 
 
        | inferior colliculus PAG
 central aqueduct
 PAG
 IV nucleus
 MLF
 SCP decussation
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        | where is the substantia nigra according to Bales PDF? |  | Definition 
 
        | ventrolateral tegmentum of the caudal midbrain |  | 
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        | the cerebral peduncles belong to what part of the midbrain |  | Definition 
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        | corticospinal and corticobulbar fibers |  | Definition 
 
        | mid 3/5 fibers of the crus cerebri |  | 
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        | medial 1/5 of crus cerebri fibers |  | 
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        | parietal-occipital-temporal pontine fibers |  | Definition 
 
        | lateral 1/5 of crus cerebri fibers |  | 
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        | an integrative nucleus of the visual system |  | Definition 
 
        | superior colliculus, rostral midbrain |  | 
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        | where is the nucleus of cranial nerve III in the rostral midbrain? |  | Definition 
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        | just rostral to the occumulomotor nucleii in the rostral midbrain |  | 
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