Blood
Lymphatic System
Nuerons & glia
Brain Anatomy
Special Senses
100

Layer of centrifuged blood containing leukocytes and platelets 

What is the buffy coat?

100

This organ filters blood and contains red and white pulp

What is the spleen?

100

These structures receive incoming signals on a neuron

What are the dendrites?

100

This lobe is responsible for visual processing

what is the occipital lobe?

100

These receptors detect smell

What are olfactory receptors?

200

These antigens are found on type B red blood cells

What are B agglutinogens?

200

These lymph nodes are located in the groin

What are ingunial lymph nodes? 

200

This glial cell myelinates CNS axons

What is an oligodendrocyte? 

200

This structure connects the two cerebral hemispheres

What is the corpus callosum?

200

This structure vibrates when sound waves strike it

what is the tympanic membrane?

300

These cells make up the majority of formed elements 

What are erythrocytes? 

300

This duct drains lymph from most of the body 

What is the thoracic duct? 

300

This region of the neuron initiates action potentials 

What is the axon hillock?

300

this space contains CSF between arachnoid and pia mater 

what is the subarachnoid space?

300

This region of the retina has the highest density of cones 

What is the fovea centralis? 

400

This granulocyte has bilobed nucleus and combats parasites

What is an eosinophil?

400

This enlarged sac sits at the base of the thoracic duct 

What is the cisterna chyli? 

400

These glial cells act as immune defenders in the CNS

What are microglia? 

400

These tree like white matter structures are found in the cerebellum

what is the arbor vitae? 

400

These ducts detect rotational acceleration 

What are the semicircular ducts? 

500

A patient with type O neg blood can donate to any blood type becasue they lack these two major surface antigens 

What are A & B antigens?

500

Cluster of lymphatic tissue in the upper chest 

What is the Thymus?

500

Structure houses sensory neuron cell bodies and bulges along the posterior root of the spinal nerve 

Posterior root ganglion?

500

This is cranial nerve #6 (VI) 

What is the abducens?

500

Damage to this cranial nerve would result in loss of smell 

What is the olfactory nerve (CN I)?

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