Nerves
A part of a neuron that receives signals from the body into the nucleus.
What is a dendrite?
This is the part of the nervous system that includes the brain and spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system?
This is found at the base of the brain and controls your involuntary muscles.
What is the brain stem?
This gland found in the throat controls the bodies hormones for metabolism and temperature regulation.
What is the thyroid?
This is the purpose of white blood cells.
What is defense against pathogens?
This is a part of a neuron that takes messages from the nucleus and send them out to the rest of the body.
What is an axon?
This part of the nervous system controls the arm and leg muscles.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
This is largest part of your brain and has many folds and layers. It controls your emotions and interprets your sensory information.
What is the cerebrum?
The parathyroids control this element that is essential for the health of bone and teeth.
What is calcium?
This is the collective name for white blood cells such as neutrophils, basophils, and lymphocytes.
What are leukocytes?
These are immediate behaviors in which the neurons don't have time to be sent to the brain. They are only sent to the spinal cord for fast reaction time.
What are reflexes?
The nervous system can be divided into these 2 types based on fight or flight and rest and digest.
What are the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems?
These are the functions of the cerebellum.
What are balance and coordination?
These glands are found on the kidneys.
What are the adrenal glands?
This is the term for the stopping of bleeding that occurs through formation of a clot using fibrin.
What is hemostasis?
This is the term for signaling molecules between neurons that send a message when they bind receptors. Acetylcholine (ACh) is an example.
What are neurotransmitters?
This part of the nervous system relays messages associated with reflexes.
What is the spinal cord?
This lobe of your brain contains sensory connections for vision.
This gland has two lobes that release many hormones that control growth, emotions, and reproduction processes.
What is the pituitary gland?
This is a mobile blood clot that can block a vessel.
What is an embolus?
The movement of a signal down an axon by altering the location of positive and negative charges is called this.
What is the action potential (depolarization)?
These types of neurons carry messages to the central nervous system.
What are afferent neurons?
This is the area of the brain associated with hormone regulation and coordination of sensory inputs.
What is the diencephalon?
This hormone can affect metabolism, blood sugar, blood pressure, inflammation, and sleep-wake cycles; most associated with stress.
What is cortisol?
The layer of separated blood in a sample that contains the leukocytes and platelets is called this.
What is the buffy coat?