Cardiovascular System
The network of thin blood vessels that connect the arteries and veins?
What are Capillaries?
The gland located in depression in the sphenoid bone just inferior to the brain.
What is Pituitary gland?
Internal organ conditions.
What is visceral?
The four lobes of the brain.
What are the temporal lobe, the parietal lobe, the occipital lobe and the frontal lobe?
The continuation of the spinal cord; consisting of medulla oblongata, pons, and mid brain.
What is the brain stem?
The largest artery that supplies all of the body with oxygenated blood.
What is aorta?
The hormone that promotes synthesis of insulin like growth factors.
What is human growth hormone?
Conscious or subconscious awareness of change in external/internal environment.
What is sensation?
The functional unit of the nervous system.
What are neurons?
This gives rise to the hypothalamus, the thalamus, and epithalamus.
What is diencephalon?
The valve between the atria and the ventricles.
What is atrioventricular valve?
The hormone that starts follicle development and egg production.
What is follicle stimulating hormone?
Receptors that control temperature.
What are thermoreceptors?
The white matter maintaining myelin sheath around axons in the central nervous system.
What are oligodendrocytes?
The protection of the brain from harmful substances.
What is the blood brain barrier?
The term used for red blood cells.
What is erythrocyte?
The hormone that controls production and secretion of glucocorticoids from adrenal cortex.
What is adrenocorticotropic hormone?
Chemical stimulation of free nerve endings.
What is itch?
A sequence of continuous events that decrease and eventually reverse membrane potential and then restore it to resting state.
What is action potential?
The clear fluid that circulates in the brain cavities and absorbs shock to protect the brain and spinal cord.
What is cerebrospinal fluid?
The recording of currents from cardiac conduction on the skin.
What is Electrocardiogram?
The gland of small round masses in posterior of thyroid gland.
What is parathyroid glands?
Site of olfactory receptors.
What is smell?
The period of time in which a neuron can not generate another action potential.
What is refractory period?
This controls the autonomic nervous system through hormone production.
What is hypothalamus?