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| What consists of the brain and spinal cord? |
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| Central Nervous System 1644 |
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| What is a tendon expansion that connects the frontal and occipital muscles of the cranium? |
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| What joins the paired parietal bones? |
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| What joins the parietal bones to the frontal bone? |
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| What joins the occipital bone to the parietal bones? |
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| What is the fibrous tissue the link the sutures? |
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| What cone-shaped section of bone is at the base of each temporal bone? |
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| What are the 3 compartments the cranial vault is divided into? |
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| Anterior, Middle, and Posterior Fossa 1644 |
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| What forms a prominent bony ridge in the center of the anterior fossa and is the point of attachment of the meninges? |
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| What are numerous openings? |
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| What is on the other side of the crista galli, a horizontal bone that is perforated with numerous openings (formina), allowing the passage of the olfactory nerve filaments from the nasal cavity? |
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| Cribriform Plate of the Ethmoid Bone 1644 |
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| What is the chamber inside the nose that lies between the floor of the cranium and the roof of the mouth? |
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| What is the bone that extends along the front of the skull below the orbit? |
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| What is the largest part of the cerebrum which regulates voluntary skeletal movement and the level of awareness? |
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| What is important for voluntary motor action and personality traits? |
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| What controls the somatic or voluntary sensory and motor functions for the opposite (contralateral) side of the body, as well as memory and emotions? |
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| Where does the optic nerve originate and is responsible for processing visual information? |
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| Where is the speech center located? |
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| What controls long-term memory, hearing, taste, and smell? |
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| What is a structure that separates the cerebral hemisphere from the cerebellum and brainstem? |
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| What is a collection of individual nerve roots? |
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| What are pinpoint red dots in the sclera of the eye and represent the rupture of tiny vessels? |
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| Petechial Hemorrhages 1658 |
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| What are respirations that are fast and then become slow, with intervening periods of apnea? |
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| Cheyne-Stokes Respirations 1659 |
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| What are deep, rapid respirations that are similar to Kussmaul? |
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| Central Neurogenic Hyperventilation 1659 |
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| What are characterized by irregular rate, pattern, and volume of breathing with intermittent periods of apnea? |
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| Ataxic or Biot Respirations 1659 |
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| What is drooping of the upper eyelid and a small pupil that would indicate and injury to C3? |
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| What is hyperacute pain to touch? |
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| What is the ability to perceive the position and movement of one's own body or limbs? |
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| What is an increase in MAP to compensate for decreased cerebral perfusion pressure? |
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| What is the most common type of brain herniation and occurs when a portion of the temporal lobe is displaced? |
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| What type of brain herniation occurs when part of the cerebellum is displaced through the foramen magnum? |
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| Tonsillar Herniation 1665 |
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| What is hypertension (with a widening pulse pressure), bradycardia, and irregular respirations? |
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| What is a injury that affects the entire brain? |
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| Diffuse Brain Injury 1665 |
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| What is a specific, grossly observable brain injury (it can be seen on a CT scan)? |
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| What is an accumulation of blood between the skull and dura mater? |
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| What is an accumulation of blood beneath the dura mater but outside the brain? |
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| What involves bleeding within the brain tissue itself? |
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| Intracerebral Hematoma 1668 |
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| What is bleeding between the periosteum of the skull and the galea aponeurosis? |
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| Subgaleal Hemorrhage 1668 |
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| What will often be defined as a firmer, nodular mass occasionally with idiom "goose egg" used to describe it? |
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| Supragaleal Hematoma 1668 |
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| What is a high body temperature? |
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| What results from forward movement of the head, typically as the result of rapid deceleration or from a direct blow to the occiput? |
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| What is a partial dislocation? |
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| What is paralysis of the small bowel? |
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| What is structural defect of the spine involving the lamina or vertebral arch? |
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