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Arterial blood supply to brain made easy and detailed!

In this one we are going to talk about the arterial blood supply to the CNS Let’s start with most basic things , let’s start with a Question how much of Cardiac Output is actually contributed to CNS? It is actually 15% and that is a big no. this makes CNS one of the highly perfuesd organ system So Before starting let me tell you that our brain is actually perfused by two system :- vertebrobasilar system and internal carotid system , we will be talking about them in complete detail but at this moment i want you to remember them as names. so Basically we divided brain blood supply into two parts :- Anterior part blood supply and posterior part blood supply , let me tell you that the  posterior part is actually sypplied by the vertebrobasilar system  and  anterior part is supplied by internal carotid system. Before getting into details of blood supply let’s understand the basic origin of vessels from the heart so that you can understand which vessel from aorta actually suppl...