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| The embryonic regions of the brain all stem from |
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| The 3 major regions are called ____, and they are: |
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the primary brain vesicles
1. prosencephalon (forebrain)
2. mesencephalon (midbrain)
3. rhombencephalon (hindbrain) |
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| The subdivisions are called ____, and they are: |
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the secondary brain vesicles
1. telencephalon and diencephalon
2. the midbrain has none
3. metencephalon and myelencephalon |
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| The brain begins to form by _____ as an expansion of which end of the neural tube? |
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| The telencephalon forms which brain structures and which canal region? |
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Cerebrum (hemispheres, cortex, medulla), cerebral dividers (gyri, sulci, and fissures), lobes (frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital, insula), corpus callosum, and basal nuclei
lateral ventricles |
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| The diencephalon forms which brain structures and which canal region? |
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thalamus, hypothalamus, epithalamus, pineal gland, mammillary bodies, pituitary gland, infundibulum, optic nerve, optic chiasma, optic tract, fornix, olfactory bulbs and tracts
3rd ventricle |
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| The mesencephalon forms which brain structures and which canal region? |
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midbrain of the brain stem: corpora quadrigemina (superior and inferior colliculi); cerebral peduncles
cerebral aqueduct (part of midbrain of brain stem) |
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| What brain structures and canal region does the metencephalon form? |
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Cerebellum (arbor vitae, vermis), pons
4th ventricle |
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| What brain structures and canal region does the myelencephalon form? |
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medulla oblongata of the brain stem
4th ventricle |
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| The remainder of the neural tube becomes the |
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