Nervous System
The names of the thick and thin filaments in muscle fibers.
What are actin and myosin?
The top layer of the epidermis composed mostly of keratinized dead cells.
What is the stratum corneum?
Ringing in the ears.
What is tinnitus?
The region of the brain that forms speech.
What is Broca's area?
Voluntary, striated, multinucleated
What are characteristics of skeletal muscle fibers?
The layer that consists largely of adipose tissue.
What is the hypodermis?
The region responsible for directing information to the correct part of cerebrum.
What is the thalamus?
The muscle that is mostly responsible for a particular movement.
What is an agonist or prime mover?
The projections in the wavy boundary between epidermis and dermis.
What are dermal papillae?
The "master gland" responsible for release of multiple hormones.
What is the pituitary gland?
Microglial cells, oligodendrocytes, astrocytes, and ependymal cells.
What are four types of neuroglial cells in the CNS?
The protein to which calcium ions bind exposing binding sites.
What is troponin?
The muscle attached to a hair, which causes goosebumps.
What is the arrector pili muscle?
Cranial nerve #11
What is the Accessory nerve?
The branch of the nervous system that controls skeletal muscles and voluntary movements
What is the somatic nervous system?
The activation of multiple motor units in a muscle for additional force
What is recruitment?
Type of sweat glands in axillary and groin area triggered by sympathetic nervous system.
What are apocrine sweat glands?
The part of your eye that is inflammed when you have Pink Eye.
What is the conjunctiva?
Emotional control system of the brain consisting of multiple parts
What is the limbic system?