You Are a Neurosurgeon Exploring a Patient's Right Primary Motor

question 27

True/False

You are a neurosurgeon exploring a patient's right primary motor cortex during awake brain surgery.As you stimulate various areas,you are asking the operating room nurses to watch for the resulting muscle contractions on the left side of the patient's body.

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Definitions:

Dryopithecines

A group of extinct apes known from fossil records, believed to be ancestral to modern great apes and humans, dating to the Miocene epoch.

Hominoids

A group within the order of primates that includes apes and humans, characterized by greater mobility of the shoulder joint and absence of a tail.

Genus Pongo

The taxonomic group that includes the great apes known as orangutans, native to Indonesia and Malaysia.

Orangutans

Large apes native to Indonesia and Malaysia, known for their red-brown hair and highly intelligent, solitary behavior.