ANAT20006 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Grey Matter, Lateral Ventricles, Neurolemma

• School: University of Melbourne
• Department: Anatomy and Neuroscience
• Course: ANAT20006
• Professor: All

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Anatomical orientation: the location of the nervous system. Organization the central nervous system (esp. spinal cord) Nervous system is a kind of supply system. The body is run through the nervous system. The context of where the central nervous system is. The nerves and the neurons out in the body somewhere. The nervous system (of vertebrates) comprises a central division and a peripheral division. The brain and the spinal cord is central because it is encased in a bony cavity which protects it. The spinal vertebrate and the skull which protect them. A feature you see in all vertebrates. The nervous system is made of the cns and the pns. The cns is made up of the brain and the spinal cord. The pns is made up of twelve pairs of cranial nerves (emerging from the brain) and thirty one pairs of spinal nerves emerging from the spinal cord.