Anatomy study note · Head and neck

Cerebellum

The part of the hindbrain in the posterior cranial fossa beneath the tentorium cerebelli, behind the pons and medulla. It controls muscle tone and coordination on the same side of the body.

Key points

• Posterior cranial fossa under the tentorium.
• 2 hemispheres + vermis; dentate = largest nucleus.
• Peduncles: superior (midbrain), middle (pons), inferior (medulla).
• Same-side coordination and tone.
• Molecular / Purkinje / granular layers.
• Purkinje cells: flask-shaped, huge dendritic trees.

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Written from

• Snell’s Clinical Anatomy by Regions, 10th ed., ch. 12, PDF pp. 1566–1567
• Inderbir Singh’s Human Embryology, ch. 17, PDF pp. 331–332
• BRS Cell Biology & Histology, 7th ed., ch. 9, PDF pp. 169–170

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• Ciliary body
• Common carotid artery
• Common tendinous ring
• Cornea
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• Corpus callosum
• Corpus striatum
• Cricoid cartilage
• Cricothyroid
• Deep cervical lymph nodes

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