Parts of Nervous System
These are the two functions of the nervous system.
What is/are:
1) Controls and coordinates all body functions
2) Senses and interprets information from outside the body
This is the medical term for when the blood supply to part of the brain is blocked.
What is a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) or stroke?
This is the colored part of the eye.
What is the iris?
These are the 3 layers of the ear.
What are the outer, middle, and inner ear?
This is the term that refers to behaving properly when on the job.
What is professionalism?
These are the two parts of the nervous system.
What are the central and peripheral nervous systems?
This is a progressive disease where the myelin sheath covering the nerves, spinal cord, and white matter of the brain breaks down over time.
What is multiple sclerosis?
This is what PERRLA stands for.
What is Pupils are Equal, Round, Reactive to Light, and Accommodation?
This is the part of the ear that separates the outer and middle ear and transfers vibrations to the bones of the middle ear when sound hits it.
What is the tympanic membrane?
This is the plane that divides the body into left and right sections.
What is the sagittal plane?
These are the parts of the human anatomy that make up the the Central Nervous System.
What are the brain and spinal cord?
This is when patients with Alzheimer's Disease or other types of dementia are more likely to wander and be agitated in the late afternoon and evening.
What is sundowning?
This is the clear, outer part of the eye.
What is the sclera?
This is the part of the ear that contains fluid and carries sound waves to the auditory nerve.
What is the inner ear?
This is the medical root term that refers to bone.
What is osteo?
This is the number of cranial and spinal nerves.
What is:
1) 12 cranial nerves
2) 31 spinal nerves
This is the term for when the lens of the eye becomes cloudy.
What is a cataract?
This is the term for when the pupils constrict when focusing on an object.
What is accommodation?
This/these is/are the direction(s) you pull the ear when examining teenager and adult patients.
What is back, up, and out?
This is the number of types of white blood cells AKA leukocytes. (bonus if you can name 2 of the types)
What are 5 types of WBCS.
Types include- eosinophils, monocytes, neutrophils, lymphocytes, basophils
This is the part of the brain that controls heart rate, breathing, swallowing, coughing, etc.
What is the brain stem?
This is the term for age-related hearing loss.
What is presbycusis?
This is the part of the eye that contains cells that react to light and sends messages to the brain.
What is the retina?
The middle ear is made of 3 small bones and this tube.
What is the eustachian tube?
(pronounced yoo-stay-kee-an)
Patients with angina may be given this medication that allows the walls of the coronary arteries to open and get more blood to the heart.
What is nitroglycerin?