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Anatomy
Undergraduate 1
04/02/2012
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Sensory input
 Definition

 

Information gathered by sensory receptors about internal and external changes

 
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CNS
 Definition
consists of the brain and spinal cord
Term

Adult brain regions

 

 Definition
Cerebral hemispheres
Diencephalon
Brain stem (midbrain, pons, and medulla)
Cerebellum
Term
Spinal cord
Definition
Central cavity surrounded by a gray matter core
External white matter composed of myelinated fiber tracts
Term
Brain
 Definition

 

Similar pattern with additional areas of gray matter

Nuclei in cerebellum and cerebrum

Cortex of cerebellum and cerebrum
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Ventricles of the Brain
 Definition

 

Connected to one another and to the central canal of the spinal cord
Lined by ependymal cells
Contain cerebrospinal fluid
Two C-shaped lateral ventricles in the cerebral hemispheres
Third ventricle in the diencephalon

Fourth ventricle in the hindbrain, dorsal to the pons, develops from the lumen of the neural tube

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