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Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System
What is the 2 main divisions of the Nervous System?
Front portion of brain
What is the frontal lobe?
Sense of smell
What is olfactory?
The light detecting portion of the eyes
What is rods?
The outermost portion of the external ear
What is the pinna?
What is the function of a neuron
What are to transmit nerve impulses?
Cell body, dendrites, axon are the three main parts of a.....
What is the neuron?
Contraction of muscles of tongue
What is hypoglossal?
The color detecting portion of the eye
What are the cones
The fatty portion of the ear, which is most often decorated with bling
What is the lobe?
A synapse is....
What is a region of communication between two neurons - the gap
Carry impulses from sense receptors to the CNS
What are sensory neurons?
Eye movement
What is abducens?
The clear covering of the front of the eye
What is the cornea?
The ossicles are....
What is three bones of the middle ear
hammer or malleus
anvil or incus
stirrup or stapes?
Regulates body temperature, regulates sleep/wake cycles, regulates secretes of hormones from the pituitary gland
What is the function of hypothalamus?
Portion of brain primarily responsible for vision
What is the occipital lobe?
Vision
What is optic?
The portion of the eye that will increase and decrease in diameter, in response to light availability
What is the pupil?
Another name of the tympanic membrane is the ....
What is the eardrum
Regulates rhythmic cycles in the body, by creating the hormone melatonin
What is the pineal gland?
Separates the brain into left and right hemispheres.
What is the longitudinal fissure?
Autonomic motor fibers to heart, smooth muscles, and glands
What is vagus?
The colored portion of the front of the eye, generally with alleles of hues of green, brown, and blue
What is the iris?
The location of the tiny hairs, for sound interpretation
What is cochlea?
Pons, Midbrain, Medulla
What is the brain stem?
This portion of the brain is responsible for processing sensory information regarding the location of parts of the body as well as interpreting visual information and processing language and mathematics
What is the parietal lobe?
facial expression
What is facial?
The area that is densely populated with cones
What is the fovea
The portion of the ear MOST concerned with equilibrium
What is the semicircular canals?
The fluid found in the brain and spinal cord
What is cerebrospinal fluid?
Membrane that surrounds the brain and spinal cord
What is the meninges?
Muscle of mastication
What is the trigeminal?
The liquid portion, located between the cornea and iris.
What is aqueous humor?
sound travels as what type of wave
What is compressional or longitudinal?
The gaps in between Schwann cells
What are Nodes of Ranvier?
a region in the frontal lobe of the dominant hemisphere, usually the left, of the brain with functions linked to speech production
What is the Broca's area?
Movement of eyes
What is trochlear?
The liquid portion of the eye, making up the majority of the volume of the eye
What is the vitreous humor?
Sound cannot travel through....
What is vacuum or empty space?
Two types of brain matter
What is gray and white?
region of the brain that is important for language development - located in the temporal lobe on the left side of the brain and is responsible for the comprehension of speech
What is the Wernicke's area?
Movement of eyelids
What is oculomotor?
the portion of the eye that is continuous with the cornea, encircling the eye
What is the sclera
How many cranial nerve pairs are there
What is 12?
Adjustment of heart rate, regulation of blood pressure, regulation of breathing, vomiting
What are activities of the medulla?
Separates the frontal and parietal brain
What is the central sulcus?
Hearing and equilibrium
What is vestibulocochlear?
The nerve (name not number) sending the information from the eye to the brain
What is optic?
The proper term for a middle ear infection
What is otitis media ?
Body coordination, posture, balance
What is the cerebellum?
separates the parietal and occipital lobes
What is the parieto-occipital sulcus?
Taste receptors and swallowing
What is glossopharyngeal?
When someone can see far objects, but can't see objects up close
What is farsighted or hyperopia?
Another term for the auditory tube
What is the Eustacian tube?
The number of brain hemispheres
What is two?
The ___ is the most lateral boundary, separating the parietal lobe from the temporal lobe
What is the lateral sulcus (sylvian fissure)?
Contraction of trapezius and sternocleidomastoid muscles
What is the accessory?
The clear portion of the eye that light and images travel through, whose primary job is to properly place the image on the back of the retina for interpretation
What is the lens?
The primary nerve of hearing
What is auditory nerve, cochlear, vestibular, cochleovestibular or vestibulocochlear?