Muscles
A sudden, involuntary muscle contraction, which is always painful.
What is a spasm?
Nervous system that is voluntarily controlled (by conscious will) and all of its effectors are skeletal muscles.
What is the somatic nervous system?
The innermost layer of the eyeball that contains light-sensitive cells (rods and cones) which generate the nerve impulses associated with vision.
What is the retina?
The three small bones of the middle ear that are joined in such a way that they amplify the sound waves received by the tympanic membrane as they transmit the sounds to the inner ear.
What are the malleus, incus, and stapes (the ossicles)?
Functions as the sensor/control center in the negative feedback loop, regulating blood glucose levels.
What is the pancreas?
A potentially life-threatening condition of seriously overworked muscles. The muscle cells undergo necrosis, releasing their contents into the bloodstream, leading to kidney damage.
What is rhabdomylosis?
Neuro test that measures the electrical signals produced by the brain's functions.
What is electroencephalography (EEG)?
The part of the eye that is made of tough connective tissue and is commonly referred to as the white of the eye.
What is the sclera?
The part of the inner ear that is coiled like a snail shell and contains the receptors for hearing.
What is the cochlea?
Small endocrine gland that sits on top of each kidney and regulates fight or flight response.
What are the adrenal glands?
A decrease the muscle size due to immobilization, such as when an extremity is put in a cast after a fracture or a person is bedridden for a time.
What is atrophy?
An imaging technique that is used to visualize soft tissue, hemorrhages, and tumors that cannot be seen with x-ray.
What is magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)?
The process of adjusting lens thickness to allow for vision at near and far distances.
What is accomodation?
An infection and inflammation of the middle ear cavity caused by a variety of bacteria and viruses.
What is otitis media (middle ear infection)?
The purpose of the endocrine system.
What is to produce, store, and release hormones to help the body maintain homeostasis?
A general term for muscle pain that can be associated with multiple conditions.
What is myalgia?
The cranial nerve that carries autonomic motor impulses to most of the organs in the abdominal and thoracic cavities including the heart and digestive system. When triggered, it can cause the patient to lose consciousness.
What is the vagus nerve?
Vision disorder from an age-related loss of elasticity in the lens. As a result, the lens can no longer thicken sufficiently to bring near objects into focus.
What is presbyopia?
A medical assistant is performing an ear irrigation for a patient. The patient reports dizziness. The assistant should recognize that these symptoms could be caused by...
What is the temperature of the water being too cold?
The pineal gland produces this hormone during dark periods: little hormone is produced during daylight hours to influence the regulation of sleep-wake cycles and delay the onset of puberty.
What is melatonin?
Type of muscle that is found within the walls of hollow organs, blood vessels, and the iris of the eye. AKA involuntary muscle
A mild traumatic brain injury, refers to a transient alteration in brain function resulting from head trauma or from acceleration-deceleration events where a head in motion suddenly comes to a stop.
What is a (cerebral) concussion?
A chronic complication of diabetes mellitus affecting the eye. We can do an IRIS scan to screen for this condition in office to catch it early.
What is retinopathy?
The inner ear is not only responsible for processing sound. The sensors in the vestibule and semicircular canals also give us our sense of...
What is equilibrium?
A disorder that develops if growth hormone producing cells become overactive in an adult leading to widening of the face, hands, and feet.
What is acromegaly?