Involuntary muscle control.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
Area of skin that contains pores and melanocytes.
What is epidermis?
The structure of an organism.
What is anatomy?
Attaches muscle to bone.
What is a tendon?
Voluntary muscle control.
What is the somatic nervous system?
Divides the body into front and back halves.
What is the frontal plane?
A balanced solution.
What is isotonic?
The body's ability to keep its internal conditions stable
What is homeostasis?
Area of the skin that contains fat cells.
What is hypodermis?
Receives the nerve impulses.
What are dendrites?
The water inside the cell rushes out in an attempt to balance the salt.
What is a hypertonic solution?
Divides the body into top and bottom halves.
What is the transverse plane?
The function of an organism.
What is physiology?
The pathway a nerve impulses travels.
What is an axon?
Send impulses toward the body.
What are efferent nerves?
When the body encourages a change to continue, thereby taking it farther from its normal point.
What is positive feedback?
Send impulses toward the brain.
What are afferent nerves?
Divides the body into right and left halves.
What is the midsagittal plane?
Area of skin that contains blood vessels, nerves, glands.
What is dermis?
Release neurotransmitters to pass the impulse to the next neuron.
What are axon terminals?
It is used to estimate the amount of fluid that needs to be returned to a burn victim.
What is The Rule of Nines?
The structure of human body components depend on their function.
What is the principle of complementarity?
When the body reverses a change in its internal environment to to keep levels at a normal level.
What is negative feedback?
Allows the impulse to jump to increase speed.
What are Nodes of Ranvier?
The part of the PNS that is in control of emergency situations ‘fight or flight’.
What is the Sympathetic division?