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Glossary
Term
3-ventricle models
A. basilaris
A. carotis interna
A. cerebri anterior
A. cerebri media
A. communicans anterior
A. communicans posterior
A. posterior
Aa. cerebri
Aa. vertebrales
acetylcholine
adrenaline
afferent, afferents
Allocortex
amino acid/s
amygdale, corpus amygdaloideum
anterior
arachnoidea
ARAS
Archiocortex
astrocyte/s
autonomous nervous system
axial
axon
BA 1,2 & 3
BA 17, 18 & 19
BA 4
BA 44
BA 45
basal forebrain
basal ganglia
Explanation
basket cell
Bernard, Claude
biogenetic law (Haeckel)
blood brain barrier BBB
bone marrow
bouton, presynaptic
brain
Broca area
Broca, Paul
Brodmann area
Brodmann, Korbinian
bulbus olfactorius
Cajal, Santiago Ramón y
capsula externa
capsula extrema
capsula interna
caudal
cellula prima, secunda, tertia
central cave grey
central nervous system
cerebellum, cerebellar
cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)
cerebrovascular
cerebrum, cerebal
chiasma opticum
Cingulum
circulus Willisii, Circuit of Willis
claustrum
collateral/s
commissura, anterior
commissura, posterior
commissure, commissura
cornu ammonis (CA)
corona radiata
coronar
corpus callosum
corpus mamillaris
Cortex
cortex, cortical
cranium, cranial
Dandy, Walter
De corporis humana fabrica
dendrite
diencephalon
dopamine
dorsal
dorsolateral
dura mater
Eccles, John Carew, Sir
efferent, efferents
encephalon
endoneurium
endoplasmatic reticulum
endorphine
entorhinal cortex
epidural
epineurium
epiphysis
epithalamus
exteroceptors
extrapyramidal motor system
falx cerebri
fascicle (nerve)
fascicle, fasciculus (brain)
fibre
fibres, types of (nerve)
fissura longitudinalis
fissura Sylvii
foramen
fornix
frontal
G. angularis
G. cinguli
G. dentatus, dentate gyrus
G. parahippocampalis
G. postcentralis
G. praecentralis
gamma amino butyric acid GABA
ganglia
gap junction
glia, glial cells
globus pallidus
glutamate
glycine
Golgi apparatus
Golgi, Camillo
gyrus, gyri
habenula
haemorrhage
Heschl's gyrus
hilus
hippocampus
hydrocephalus
hypophysis, corpus pineale
hypothalamus
hypoxia
inferior
infundibulum
insula, insular cortex
insult, brain insult
interneurons
intestinal nervous system
Isocortex
L. frontalis, frontal lobe
L. occipitalis, occipital lobe
L. parietalis, parietal lobe
L. temporalis, temporal lobe
lamina, laminae, laminar
limbic system
Locus coeruleus (ceruleus)
matter, grey
matter, white
medulla oblongata
membrane
mesencephalon
mesiotemporal
metencephalon
mitochondria
monoamine/s
motor efferent
myelencephalon
myeline sheat
N. abducens (VI)
N. accessorius (XI)
N. facialis (VII)
N. glossopharyngeus (IX)
N. hypoglossus (XII)
N. oculomotorius (III)
N. olfactorius (I)
N. opticus (II)
N. trigeminus (V)
N. trochlearis (IV)
N. vagus (X)
N. vestibulocochlearis (VIII)
Ncl. accumbens
Ncl. basalis Meynert
Ncl. caudatus
Ncl. dentatus (cerebelli)
Ncl. Raphé
Ncl. ruber
Neocortex
nerves, cranial
nerves, mixed
nerves, motor
nerves, sensory
nerves, spinal
nervous system, parts of the
neurogenesis
neuroglia
neuropeptide
neurotransmitter
node of Ranvier
noradrenaline
nucleolus
nucleus (brain area), Ncl.
nucleus (within cell)
oligodendrocyte
oliva (brain area)
orbitofrontal cortex
Palaeocortex
pallium
Papez, circuit of
parenchyma
pedunculus cerebellaris
peripheral nervous system
pia mater
pons
posterior
precuneus
prefrontal cortex
prosencephalon
Purkinje cell
putamen
pyramidal cell
pyramidal motor system
pyramide
radiatio
receptors, sensory (cells)
rhombencephalon
ribosome
rostral
sagittal
Schwann cell
sella turcica
septum (pellucidum)
serotonine
Sherrington, Charles Scott, Sir
sinus
soma (cell)
somatic afferent
spinal cord
spinal marrow
spine
spine
spiritus sensibilis
staining
striatum
subarachnoideal
subcortical
subdural
subiculum
substantia nigra
sulcus centralis
sulcus, sulci
superior
synapse
synapse, axo-axonic
synapse, axo-dendritic
synapse, axo-somatic
synapse, myoneural
synapse, neuroglandular
tectum
tegmentum
telencephalon
temporal pole
tentorium (cerebelli)
thalamus
tractus
uncus (hippocampi)
vegetative efferent
vegetative nervous system
ventral
ventricle
ventromedial
vermis cerebelli
vertebrate
Vesalius, Andreas
vesible
Vicq d'Azyr, Felix
visceral afferent
Wernicke area
Wernicke, Carl
Willis, Thomas