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What does sulcal effacement mean?
Suical effacement and the resultant CSF increase causing pressure in the brain and spinal column causes atrophy of the brain. Death can also result from this condition.
What causes CSF to move up the spinal cord?
the signal cord
What does effacement of sulci mean?
As the ventricles enlarge with CSF under pressure, the brain is squeezed with the result that the gyri come together…emptying the subarachnoid spaces (sulci) of CSF. Refers to condition of not being able to visualize sulci on CT.
The hole in the spinal cord through which csf flows i called?
Central canal....
What protects your spinal?
The spinal cord is protected by the vertebrae, meninges, and CSF (cerebrospinal fluid)
Where is the safest place to remove csf for a spinal tap?
Distal to the end of the spinal cord.
What is produced by the ventricles and baths the brain and spinal cord?
Cerebral spinal fluid, or CSF.
What in the gray commissure of the spinal cord contains csf and is continuous with the ventricles of the brain?
the central canal
Where is the CSF formed?
CSF, otherwise known as cerebrospinal fluid is a colorless liquid which fills and surrounds the brain and spinal cord, creating a protective barrier. It originates in the ventricles of the brain.
What is liquid around the brain and spinal cord?
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
What does the Choroid plexus produce?
The choroid plexus produces cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). CSF is a clear, colorless fluid that provides important protection and nourishment to the brain and spinal cord. It also helps to remove waste products from the central nervous system.
Effacement of the epidural fat?
There is mild narrowing of the central canal and teh lumbar spine. This in combination with prominent epidural fat, results in Effecement of Ceberal Spinal Fluid (CSF) around the nerve roots in the thecal sac.
