The Muscular System
Needs to happen to a muscle in order for it to contract.
What is to be stimulated by a nerve impulse?
Name one part of a neuron.
What is dendrite, cell body, or axon.
Division of the nervous system that includes the brain and spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system?
Smell, taste, hearing, and sight are classified as this type of sense.
What is special sense?
Blood cells that carry oxygen.
What are red blood cells?
A decrease in strength of muscle contraction.
What is fatigue?
The 2 halves of the cerebrum.
What are hemispheres?
The 2nd largest part of the brain, also called "little brain".
What is the cerebellum?
Receptors for night vision.
What are rods?
Fragments in blood that help with blood clotting
What are platelets?
An increase in muscle size.
What is hypertrophy?
Division of the brain that includes the thalamus and hypothalamus.
What is the diencephalon?
Name one part of the brainstem
What is pons, midbrain, or medulla oblongata
Nearsightedness
What is myopia?
A condition in which the blood is deficient in red blood cells
What is anemia?
A decrease in muscle size due to inactivity.
What is atrophy?
What are sensory impulses?
One lobe is missing. Frontal, temporal, and parietal.
What is occipital?
What are ossicles?
Protein that determines blood types as + or -.
The minimum stimulus required to cause a muscle fiber to contract.
What is the threshold stimulus?
Part of the peripheral nervous system that controls involuntary body functions like heart rate, digestion, and includes our "fight or flight" response.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
Structure that connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum?
Inner ear structure responsible for balance and equilibrium.
What are semicircular canals?
Abnormally high WBC count.
What is leukocytosis?