Brain and Cranial Nerves Pt. 1

How many cranial nerves pass through the cranium?

• 16

• 14

• 12

• 10

What is the deepest part of the brain that transitions into the spinal cord?

• Cerebellum

• Cerebrum

• Brainstem

• Diencephalon

What are the grooves between the gyri on the cerebrum called?

• Nuclei

• Fissures

• Sulci

• Ventricles

Which part of the brain is responsible for conscious thought and abstract thinking?

• Brainstem

• Cerebrum

• Diencephalon

• Cerebellum

What is the name of the structure that looks like the eye of a chicken in the diencephalon?

• Third ventricle

• Interthalamic adhesion

• Thalamus

• Hypothalamus

What is gray matter primarily composed of?

• Myelinated axons

• Dural venous sinuses

• Cell bodies and unmyelinated structures

• Cerebral nuclei

What is the outermost layer of the cerebrum called?

• Pia mater

• Cortex

• White matter

• Cerebral nuclei

What is a ganglion?

• A collection of axons in the CNS

• A type of white matter

• A collection of neuronal cell bodies in the PNS

• A space filled with cerebrospinal fluid

What separates the two hemispheres of the cerebrum?

• Fox cerebelli

• Fox cerebri

• Tentorium cerebelli

• Diaphragma sellae

What is the function of the dural venous sinuses?

• To protect the brain from injury

• To drain cerebrospinal fluid and deoxygenated blood

• To connect the hemispheres of the brain

• To house the cerebral nuclei