Nervous System
What transfers from one neuron to another?
Neurotransmitters
Functions of the Broca's and Wernicke's area?
Broca's area controls speech and Wernicke's area controls interpretation and understanding speech.
Actin and Myosin
What is the end of the bone called and the middle?
End is the epiphysis and the middle is the diaphysis
What are the four kinds of tissues?
Epithelial, Connective, Muscular, and nervous
What is the axon covered in and what does it do?
The axon is covered in myelin sheath and it speeds up electrical impulses.
Function of corpus callosum?
Ties both brain hemispheres together
What are skeletal muscle fiber cells?
Multi-nucleate cells with oval nuclei under sarcolemma
What kind of bone marrow is found in the middle of the bone and at the end of the bone?
Red bone marrow is found at the end, and Yellow bone marrow is found in the middle.
What does pseudostratified mean?
What is the build of a neuron in order?
Dendrites, Cell body, Axon, Synapse, Synaptic cleft
What are the functions of the cerebral cortex?
functions are: speech, memory, logic, emotional responses, consciousness, interpretation of sensation, and voluntary movement.
What is the structure of the skeletal muscle?
epimysium, muscle belly, perimysium, endomysium, fasicle, and muscle fiber.
What are the axial and appendicular skeleton and what do they consist of?
Axial consists of upper body except limbs, Appendicular consists of limbs
What are the anatomic planes?
Sagittal, median, transverse, and coronal
What are the two subdivisions of the nervous system?
Afferent and Efferent
Polarized the plasma membrane becomes more negative, depolarized the plasma membrane becomes more positive because of sodium intake.
How much energy is released as heat and muscle contraction?
75% as heat and 25% as muscle contraction
What is the difference between a depressed fracture and a impacted fracture?
A depressed fracture is pressed inward and a impacted fracture causes the bones to press into each other
What does superior and anterior mean?
Superior meaning something is above another, anterior meaning something is below specifically in the front of the body.
What is the function of astrocytes?
Form a living barrier between capillaries and neurons.
what does neuroglia do?
What is the difference between ADP and ATP?
ADP molecule that is waiting to store energy ATP is the molecule that is storing energy.
vertebræ, sacrum, coccyx, temporal, sphenoid, ethmoid, zygomatic, maxilla, mandible, palatine, inferior nasal concha, and hyoid.
What type of movement can joints have?