Term
| THE CIRCLE OF WILLIS EXISTS OF THE INFERIOR SURFACE OF THE BRAIN AND SURROUNDS WHAT 2 STRUCTURES? |
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Definition
| IT SURROUNDS THE PITUITARY GLAND AND THE OPTIC CHIASM |
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Term
| WHAT IS THE X SHAPE STRUCTURE CALLED THAT IS INSIDE OF THE CIRCLE OF WILLIS? |
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Definition
| IT IS THE OPTIC CHIASM THAT HAS THE LEFT AND RIGHT OPTIC NERVE WHICH COME TOGETHER JUST ANTERIOR TO THE INFUNDIBULUM AND THE PITUITARY STALK. |
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Term
| WHAT ARE THE 2 MAIN ARTERIES ON THE RIGHT AND LEFT SIDE OF THE PITUITARY GLAND? |
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Definition
| THE INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERIES |
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Term
| WHERE DOES THE INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERIES BRANCH OFF ONCE IT ENTERS INTO THE CIRCLE OF WILLIS? |
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Definition
| IS HAS OPTHALMIC ARTERIES, IT BRANCHES OFF INTO THE ANTERIOR CEREBRAL THAT IS GOING TO RUN TOWARDS THE FRONTAL LOBE, THE MIDDLE CEREBRAL THAT IS GOING TO SUPPLY A MAJORITY OF THE LATERAL ASPECTS OF THE CEREBRAL HEMISPHERS, AND THE POSTERIOR COMMUNICATING. |
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Term
| WHERE DOES THE POSTERIOR CEREBRAL VESSELS COME TOGETHER TO FORM? |
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Term
| WHAT DOES THE BASILAR ARTERY FOLLOW? |
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Definition
| THE INFERIOR OR ANTERIOR SURFACE ON THE MIDLINE OF THE PONS. AT THE TERMINAL ENS, OF THE BASILAR ARTERY IT BIFURCATES INTO 2 VERTEBRAL ARTERIES. |
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Term
| WHERE DOES THE VERTEBRAL ARTERIES BEGIN AT? |
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Definition
| THE SUBCLAVIN ARTERY AND ENTER INTO THE TRANSVERSE FORAMEN OF THE CERVICAL VERTEBRA. THEY THEN RUN UPWARDS TO C1 AND THEN ENTER INTO THE CRANIAL VAULT VIA THE FORAMEN MAGNUM. |
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Term
| WHAT 2 ARTERIES DOES BLOOD SUPPLY TO THE BRAIN TAKE PLACE? |
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Definition
| THE INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERIES (FRONT BLOOD SUPPLY) AS WELL AS FROM THE VERTEBRAL ARTERIES (BACK BLOOD SUPPLY) |
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Term
| DESCRIBE THE PATHWAY OF THE INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY. |
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Definition
| IT TRAVELS UPWARD AND ENTERS THE CRANIAL VAULT VIA THE CRANIAL CANAL. AS SOON AS THEY ENTER INTO THE CRANIAL VAULT, THEY TURN MEDIALLY AND ANTERIORLY. THEY BEGIN TO MOVE TOWARD THE MIDLINE IN AN ANTERIOR FASHION. THEY RUN DIRECETLY ANTERIORLY, PASSING TO THE LEFT AND THE RIGHT OF THE PITUITARY GLAND. THEY PROGRESS TO THE SPHENOID BONE, WHERE THEY ARE STOPPED AND MUST MAKE A 180 DEGREE TURN. AFTER THE 180 DEGREE TURN, THEY TRAVEL A SHORT DISTANCE THEN MOVE SUPERIORLY TO JOIN THE CIRCLE OF WILLIS. |
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Term
| THE INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY RUNS ANTERIORLY VIA THE ____, UNTIL IT HITS THE SPHENOID BONE, THEN TURNS AROUND 180 DEGREES, AND COMES BACK VIA THE ____ PORTION. |
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Term
| WHAT IS THE ORGAN MEDIAL TO THE INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERIES THAT GO TOWARD THE SPHENOID BONE? |
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Term
| WHAT OTHER STRUCTURES ALSO LIE IN THE CAVERNOUS SINUS? |
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Definition
| THE OCULOMOTOR, TROCHLEAR, ABDUCENES, OPTHALMIC, AND MAXILLARY NERVES |
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Term
| DESCRIBE THE ANTERIOR SPINAL ARTERY. |
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Definition
| IT BRANCHES FROM EACH SIDE OF THE VERTEBRAL ARTERIES TO FORM THE ANTERIOR SPINAL ARTERY WHICH SUPPLIED THE ANTERIOR PART OF THE SPINAL CORD WITH BLOOD. ATUALLY SUPPLIES 80% OF THE SPINAL CORD WITH BLOOD. |
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Term
| DESCRIBE THE POSTERIOR SPINAL ARTERIES. |
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Definition
| THESE 2 COMES OFF OF THE VERTEBRAL ARTERY AS WELL AND WRAP AROUND THE BRAINSTEM AND THEN FORM THE LEFT AND RIGHT POSTERIOR SPINAL ARTERIES. THESE ARTERIES SUPPLY THEIR RESPECTIVE DORSAL COLUMNS BLOOD SUPPLY. |
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Term
| WHERE DOES BLOOD SUPPLY TO THE SPINAL CORD BEGIN AT? |
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Term
| WHAT ARE THE ARTERIES THAT COME OFF OF THE BASILAR ARTERY AND WHERE DO THEY GO TO? |
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Definition
| THE SUPERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY, ANTERIOER INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY, AND THE POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY SUPPLYS BLOOD TO THE BRAINSTEM. |
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Term
| WHERE DOES THE MINOR BRANCHES OF THE BASILAR ARTERY THAT AREN'T NAMED SUPPLY THE BLOOD TO? |
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Definition
| THE BRAINSTEM (PONS) OR THE CARDIOVASCULAR AND RESPIRATORY CENTERS IN THE BRAIN. |
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Term
| WHERE DOES THE LABYRINTHINE ARTERY OFF OF THE BASILAR ARTERY SUPPLY BLOOD TO? |
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| WHERE DOES THE ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY SUPPLY BLOOD TO? |
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Definition
| SUPPLIES THE INSIDE, OR THE MEDIAL ASPECT OF THE CEREBRAL HEMISPHERES. IT DOES ALSO SUPPLY A SMALL PORTION OF THE BLOOD TO THE FRONTAL LOBE, BUT THE MAJORITY SUPPLIES TJE MEDIAL ASPECT OF THE CEREBRAL HEMISPHERES. |
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Term
| WHERE DOES THE MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY SUPPLY BLOOD TO? |
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Definition
| SUPPLIES A MAJORITY OF THE LATERAL PORTIONS OF THE CEREBRAL HEMISPHERES. |
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Term
| WHERE DOES THE POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY SUPPLY BLOOD TO? |
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Term
| WHERE DOES THE FACIAL NERVE EXIT THROUGH? |
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Definition
| THE STYLOMASTOID FORAMEN. IT IS LOCATED BETWEEN THE MASTOID PROCESS AND THS STYLOID PROCESS. |
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Term
| WHAT ARE THE 5 FACIAL NERVES? |
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Definition
| TEMPORAL, ZYGOMATIC, BUCCAL, MANDIBULAR, CERVICAL |
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Term
| WHAT DOES THE OLFACTORY NERVE AND OPTIC NERVE EXIT? |
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Definition
| THE OLFACTORY AT THE OLFACTORY FORAMINA, THE OPTIC AT THE OPTIC CANAL |
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Term
| WHERE DOES THE OCCULOMOTOR, TROCHLEAR, OPTHALMIC, AND ABDUCENS NERVES EXIT AT? |
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Definition
| THE SUPERIOR ORBITAL FISSURE |
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Term
| WHERE DOES THE MAXILLARY AND MANDIBULAR NERVES EXIT AT? |
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Definition
| MAXILLARY IS THE FORAMEN ROTUNDUM AND THE MANDIBULAR IS THE FORAMEN OVALE |
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Term
| WHERE DOES THE FACIAL NERVE EXIT? |
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Definition
| THE FACIAL CANAL AND THE STYLOMASTOID FORAMEN |
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Term
| WHERE DOES THE AUDITORY AND HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE EXIT? |
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Definition
| THE AUDITORY EXITS AT THE INTERNAL ACOUTIC MEATUS AND THE HYPOGLOSSAL EXITS AT THE HYPOGLOSSAL CANAL |
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Term
| WHERE DOES THE GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL, BAGUS, AND THE SPINAL ACCESSORY NERVES EXIT AT? |
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| WHAT IS THE CRANIAL EXIT FOR THE OLFACTORY NERVE? |
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Term
| WHAT DOES THE LATERAL GENICULATE NECLUES DO? |
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Definition
| GIVES OFF FIBERS TO THE OCCIPITAL LOBE |
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Term
| WHERE IS THE RIGHT LATERAL FIELD OF VISION SENSED BY? |
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Term
| WHERE IS THE RIGHT NASAL FIELD SENSED BY? |
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Term
| WHICH EYE FIELDS DECCUSATE? |
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Definition
| THE LATERAL RETINA DOES NOT DECUSSATE. THE MEDIAL RETINA DOES DECUSSATE TO THE OTHER SIDE. |
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Term
| WHAT HAPPENS OF THERE IS DAMAGE TO THE OPTIC NERVE? |
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Definition
| YOU END UP WITH MONOCULAR BLINDNESS. |
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Term
| IF THERE IS DAMAGE TO THE OPTIC CHIASM IT CAUSES LOSS OF PERIPHERAL FIELDS OF VISION. WHAT IS THAT CALLED? |
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Definition
| BITEMPORAL HEMIANOPSIA (TUNNEL VISION). |
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Term
| DESCTRIVE HOMONOYMOUS HEMANOPSIA. |
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Definition
| BLINDNESS ON ONE SIDE OF BOTH EYES IF THERE IS DAMAGE TO THE OPTIC TRACTS. |
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