This is a nerve impulse that can occur in any denomination.
What is a graded potential?
100
This chamber extends from the apex of the cochlea to the round window.
What is the scala tympani?
100
This part of the brain controls higher level functions of the brain (i.e. personality, judgment, hearing, taste).
What is the cerebral hemisphere?
100
These are 2 types of sudoiferous glands.
What are eccrine glands and apocrine glands?
100
These 3 gates are used in the process of triggering an action potential.
What are the voltage gate, chemical gate, and mechanical gate?
200
These neurons carry impulses from the CNS to visera, muscles, and glands.
What are efferent neurons?
200
This is the structure that sound waves hit after entering the external auditory canal.
What is the tympanic membrane?
200
This is the path of CSF in the brain.
What is through the lateral ventricle, to the third ventricle, through the cerebral aqueduct, to the fourth ventricle, through the central canal, to the subarachnoid space, and back to the lateral ventricle?
200
All connective tissue arise from a common embryonic tissue called...
What is mesenchyme?
200
Name the 3 types of nerve impulses.
What are resting potentials, graded potentials, and action potentials?
300
What covers the axon and increases the speed of nerve impulses?
What is a myelin sheath?
300
Known as the ossicles, these three bones facilitate the passage of vibrations to the inner ear.
What are the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?
300
This part of the brain is often associated with the fight-or-flight response of the PNS.
What is the hypothalamus?
300
What layer of the epidermis is in thick skin only and consists of dead cells?
What is the stratum lucidum?
300
This law is used when describing the trigger to action potentials.
What is the law of thresholds?
400
These control light and deep receptors.
What are the Meisnerr's corpuscle and the Pacinian Corpuscle?
400
These cranial nerves control smell, taste, touch, and sound.
What are the olfactory, facial, trochlear, optic, and auditory nerves?
400
These are the major regions of the brain.
What are the cerebral hemispheres, diencephalon, brain stem, and cerebellum?
400
In the extracellular matrix this is mostly water with adhesion proteins and polysaccharide molecules.
What is ground substance?
400
This stimulus does not cause an action/response.
What is a subthreshold stimulus?
500
These cells ingest toxins and dispose of debris in the CNS.
What is a microglial cell?
500
Name 3 categories of sense receptors.
What are mechanoreceptors, chemoreceptors, and electromagnetic receptors?
500
These are the 3 generalizations about the cerebral cortex.
What is lateralization, contralaterality, and integration?
500
List 3 of the 6 common characteristics of epithelial tissue.
What is cellularity, specialized contacts, polarity, connective tissue support, innervated but avascular, regeneration?
500
Name 4 stimuli that can trigger an action potential.