Tissues
Protection, body temperature regulation, sensation, vitamin d production, immune response
What is the function of the skin?
This muscle extend the arm at the elbow.
What is the triceps brachii?
What is the neurotransmitter that crosses the neuromuscular junction to stimulate muscle contraction?
This nerve lines the back of the eye, senses light and creates impulses that travel to the brain.
What is the optic nerve?
Lateral curvature of spine.
What is scoliosis?
Connective tissue, epithelial tissue, muscle tissue, nervous tissue.
What are the 4 basic tissue types?
This muscle flexes the forearm. Its origin is the glenoid process and scapula. Its insertion is the radial tuberosity.
What is the biceps brachii?
axon
What are specialized projections on nerves that transmit chemical signals to other cells
These are a type of photoreceptor cells that give us color vision.
What are cones.
These glands produce a thin watery secretion.
What are sebaceous glands?
Epithelial tissue that lines the circulatory system.
What is endothelium?
These muscles are the semimembranosus, semitendinosus and biceps femoris.
What is the hamstring group?
Parkinson's
What is a neuro-degenerative disease?
When distant objects appear blurred and objects can only be seen up close.
What is myopia?
What structure is impaired when the patient says they have difficulty seeing at night?
What are rods?
This type of cartilage is in costal cartilage
What is hyaline cartilage?
This muscle abducts (away from body) arm to horizontal.
What is the deltoid?
neurons that allow the brain and spinal cord to communicate with muscles
What are motor neurons?
Deviation of eye that results in being cross eyed.
What is strabismus?
Your patient has build up of cerumen. What sensory disorder does he have?
What is conductive hearing loss?
This tissue lines the hollow organs like the stomach and urinary bladder.
What is smooth muscle?
This muscle is known as the swimmer muscle because it extends or adducts the arm (swimming).
What is the Lattissimus dorsi?
Touching something prickly sharp stimulates these neurons deep in the reticular layer of the dermis.
When performing an eye exam the nurse shines a light on the pupil and the pupil gets smaller as light gets closer. What is the nurse checking for?
What is accommodation?
A patient has a bka and goes to scratch the foot that was amputated. What condition is he experiencing?
What is phantom pain?