Cardiovascular
The site of exchange of gasses/nutrients from the blood to the body.
What are capillaries?
The main structures found in the CNS?
What are the brain and spinal cord?
The functional division of the PNS that regulates the digestive system.
The role of the eye in the visual system.
What is gather information and begin processing light info?
What is the pinna/auricle?
The three layers found in blood vessels (superficial to deep).
What are tunica externa, tunica media, and tunica interna?
The term nucleus refers to this part of the CNS.
What is a collection of cell bodies (gray matter)?
The division of the autonomic system that deals with "rest/digest"
What is the parasympathetic division?
A constricted pupil will perform this function.
What is allowing less light in and producing a sharper image?
List the three auditory ossicles.
What are the malleus, incus, stapes?
List three lymphatic structures that house lymphocytes and macrophages.
What are the lymph nodes, spleen, tonsils, appendix, gut-associated lymphatic tissue, and thymus?
The protective membrane that sits on the surface of the brain/spinal cord.
What is the pia mater?
A ganglion refers to ______ in the PNS.
What is a collection of neuron cell bodies (gray matter)?
Glaucoma is a result of this.
What is an increase in intraocular pressure from a build-up of aqueous humor?
This structure houses both hair cells and support cells.
What is the Organ of Corti?
After birth, the ductus arteriosus becomes this structure.
What is the ligamentum arteriosum?
The function of the hippocampus.
What is aids in the formation of long-term factual memory?
Collateral ganglia innervate these structures.
What are visceral organs (liver, pancreas, stomach, intestines)?
The photoreceptor that allows for high acuity (high resolution).
What are cones?
What is horizontal acceleration and deceleration?
List the three types of metarterioles and describe their structure.
What are...
Continuous capillaries (continuous tube)
Fenestrated capillaries (small pores on membrane)
Sinousoids (large fenestrations with incomplete basement membrane)
The IX cranial nerve and its function.
What is the glossopharyngeal (carry somatosensory info to the tongue/throat)?
The preganglionic neuron in the autonomic ganglion appears this color. Explain why.
What is white due to being myelinated?
The photopigment found in rods.
What is rhodopsin?
The structure separating the vestibular duct from the cochlear duct.
What is the vestibular membrane (Reissner’s membrane)?