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      1 NAV. Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, International Committee on Veterinary Gross Anatomical Nomenclature (ICVGAN). 2017

      2 OED. Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 2009

      3 Radostits OM, Mayhew IG, and Houston DM . Veterinary Clinical Examination and Diagnosis. WB Saunders, London. 2000

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Schematic illustration of a practical neuroanatomy.

      Disease

        Basic descriptive terminology Functional neuroanatomy

        References

      This chapter provides the basic information necessary to allow the clinician to appreciate the fundamentals of a neurologic examination and to interpret, accurately, the results of such an examination. As the clinician becomes adept at these tasks, further anatomic details may be sought. These can be found in the texts listed in the references.

      At this point, a plea is made for a clear use of anatomic terms, based on Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, Nomina Embryologica Veterinaria and Nomina Histologica, 1 along with the clinically applied terms used in functional neuroanatomy,2–4 clinical neurology,5–7 and veterinary neuropathology.8–10

      The following is a review of basic descriptive terminology; note that the derivation, abbreviation, combining form, synonym, or explanation is given parenthetically.

Schematic illustration of basic areas of the brain can be readily recognized on this diagram of a median section of a horse brain.

      however, some license is taken with respect to forebrain, which here refers to the prosencephalon plus diencephalon, as clinically, lesions in these collective regions generally present the same syndromes. It is important to recognize these various areas when sending brain sections for histopathologic examination.

      Structurally, the forebrain (prosencephalon) is composed of the cerebral hemispheres (most of the telencephalon), thalamus and hypothalamus (diencephalon), hippocampus, basal nuclei, and the limbic system, all situated in the rostral fossa of the neurocranium. The middle fossa contains the midbrain (mesencephalon). Caudally, the hindbrain (rhombencephalon) is composed of the cerebellum and pons (together with the metencephalon) and the medulla oblongata (myelencephalon) that all reside in the caudal fossa. Both the cerebrum (cerebro) and cerebellum (cerebello) have their own outer (cortical) and inner (medullary) portions, composed particularly of gray matter (neuronal cell bodies) and white matter (neuronal fibers), respectively. The remainder of the brain comprising the midbrain, pons, and medulla oblongata makes up the brainstem. This contains white matter pathways passing to and from brain and spinal cord regions, and gray matter, mostly contained in nuclei as relay centers and sensory and motor nuclear areas for the body, including the cranial nerve nuclei.

      The spinal cord is the conduit between the brain and the peripheral spinal (non‐cranial) nerves and their innervated structures of the body. Thus, it contains all the afferent and efferent neuronal fibers connecting to and from the brain as superficial white matter tracts. It has a cervicothoracic (brachial) enlargement (intumescence) and a lumbosacral (pelvic) enlargement at the levels of the thoracic and the pelvic limbs, respectively. These swellings are the result of a higher density of neuronal cell bodies at these sites, collected in the butterfly‐shaped, central gray matter and supplying the sensory and motor spinal nerves for the limbs.

      To avoid some confusion, vertebral levels are labeled as C7, T3, L4, S5, Ca6 (caudalis as opposed to coccygeal), etc., and spinal cord segments are labeled as C8, T3, L4, S5, Ca6, etc.

      The entire CNS is protected within the bony neurocranium of the head and in the vertebral canal within the vertebral column. It is covered by meninges consisting of the thick (pachy) dura mater and thin (lepto) arachnoid and pia mater. Between the latter two membranes, is cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), produced by the choroid plexuses of the lateral and fourth ventricles. This fluid also fills the cavities within the brain (ventricles) and spinal cord (spinal canal), which

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