Anatomy study note · Head and neck

Cerebrum

The largest part of the brain: two cerebral hemispheres joined by the corpus callosum and separated by the longitudinal fissure, into which the falx cerebri projects.

Key points

• 2 hemispheres + corpus callosum.
• Lobes: frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal (+ insula).
• Cortex grey outside, white matter inside.
• From the telencephalon.
• Cortex = grey matter on the surface, white matter beneath.
• CNS myelin: oligodendrocytes.

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Written from

• Snell’s Clinical Anatomy by Regions, 10th ed., ch. 12, PDF pp. 1561–1564
• Inderbir Singh’s Human Embryology, ch. 17, PDF pp. 334–341
• BRS Cell Biology & Histology, 7th ed., ch. 9, PDF pp. 163, 169–170

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