Special Senses
Inner ear primary functions are hearing and ___________.
What is balance?
This organelle renews the plasmalemma and modifies and packages proteins for exocytosis.
What is the Golgi apparatus?
Name the functional unit of osseous tissue.
What is the osteon?
This structure is the functional unit of muscle.
What is the sarcomere?
This is the functional unit of the nervous system.
What is a neuron?
The _______ of the eye regulates the amount of light entering through the pupil.
What is the iris?
These structures are located near the nucleus inside of the centrosomes and participate in forming mitotic spindles during mitosis.
What are centrioles?
Nerves carrying sensory information from the lips and the chin pass through this bone structure.
What is the mental foramina?
Name 2 straight muscles in the body.
What are rectus abdominis, rectus femoris, and lateral, medial, superior or inferior rectus eye muscles?
Name 3 divisions of the adult brain.
What are the cerebrum, diencephalon, brainstem, or cerebellum?
The sclera, choroid coat and __________ make up the 3 tunics of the eye.
What is retina?
These structures allow the small intestine to increase its absorption of nutrients.
What are the microvilli?
Sunlight and food are the source of this vitamin.
What is Vitamin D3 or cholecalciferol?
These muscles are extensors of the knee and commonly known as quadriceps femoris.
What are rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, vastus medialis and vastus intermedius?
Name the structure where CSF is absorbed into the venous circulation.
What is arachnoid granulations?
Name all 3 auditory ossicles.
What are malleus, incus and stapes?
Name 2 organs located in the right upper quadrant.
What are the liver and small intestine (duodenum) or ascending & transverse colon or stomach (pylorus) or right kidney or adrenal gland?
Name the cranial bone that forms parts of the cranial floor, contains sinuses and looks like a mask.
What is the sphenoid bone?
This is the electrical event produced by depolarization and repolarization.
What is an action potential?
Name 2 anterior structures on the spinal cord.
What are the anterior median fissure, anterior or ventral root (ramus), anterior or ventral (motor) grey horn, or anterior white column?
As the stapes causes the oval window to vibrate, these types of waves begin in the perilymph.
What are pressure waves?
Name 3 organs located in the epigastric region.
What are the stomach, liver and transverse colon?
Name the correct order of strata in thick skin, from the apical to the basal end.
What are Stratum corneum, S. lucidum, S. granulosum, S. spinosum, S. basale?
This is the term for the synapses between neurons and biceps brachii skeletal muscle fibers.
What are neuromuscular junctions?
These voltage gated channels are found along an axon.
What are Na+ and K+ channels?