Friday, March 14, 2014

WILTIMS #118: Olive anyone?

What do pyramids and olives have in common? They are both the actual anatomical terms for features of the medullary region of the brain stem. There was a good 30 seconds that I thought our professor was just messing with us regarding the "olives."

TIL: Schizophrenia sucks. I kinda figured this already, but now I'm more confident. Not knowing what is real or only in your mind would be truly maddening.

The two hemispheres of the brain are connected in four places: the anterior commissure, the corpus callosum, the commissure of fornix and the posterior commissure.

The tectum of the mesencephalon (midbrain) is also known as the quadrigeminal plate. Quadri- for 4 and -geminal for twins, which discribes the two pairs of lumps featured on its surface.


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