• Identify and name the major external features of the spinal cord and its meningeal coverings

  • Identify and name the structures that form a spinal nerve

  • Distinguish between the meningeal coverings of the cerebral hemispheres

  • Identify the frontal and parietal lobes of the cerebral cortex

  • Identify the falx cerebri and tentorium cerebelli

  • Indicate and name the dural venous sinuses

  • Identify and name the arteries that supply the brain

  • Indicate the branches of the middle meningeal arteries and their relationship to the overlying skull

  • Relate the three dimensional external anatomy of the brain to the cranial cavity and calvaria that protect it

  • Identify and name the major features visible on the external surfaces of the brain

  • Identify and name the divided pairs of cranial nerves using a freshly dissected cadaverous brain and cranial cavity

  • Identify and name the major arteries that supply the brain using a freshly dissected cadaverous brain and cranial cavity