The Control Center
This part of the brain is responsible for reasoning, planning, speech, emotions, and problem solving:
What is the frontal lobe
This is the main pathway for messages or impulses to communicate between the periphery and the brain.
What is the spinal cord?
The peripheral nervous system includes these two systems.
What is the somatic and autonomic nervous systems?
These types of receptors sense pain and itch.
What are nociceptors?
This is the lubricant that coats the inner portion of the alveolus and allows them to expand easily.
What is surfactant?
This part of the brain means "little brain" and is responsible for maintaining things like movement, coordination, and balance.
What is the cerebellum?
Cerebrospinal fluid is produced in these interconnecting cavities of the brain.
What are the ventircles?
This cranial nerve that controls vision.
What is the II-optic nerve?
Stimuli comes from the periphery to this organ first then relayed to the cortex of the brain.
What is the thalamus?
This is decreased oxygen in the arterial blood leading to a decrease in the partial pressure of oxygen.
What is hypoxemia?
This subset of the nervous system is responsible for increasing heart rate, vasoconstriction, and elevating blood pressure.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
This is when astrocytes respond to local tissues injury through proliferation forming a glial scar.
What is astrogliosis?
The cranial nerve VIII-vestibulocochlear controls this.
What is balance and hearing?
This disease results from damage to the optic nerve associated with increases in intraocular pressure.
What is glaucoma?
The tell-tell sign of this disease is consolidation seen on a chest xray.
What is pneumonia?
This lobe is responsible for conscious perception of touch, pressure, temperature and pain.
What is the Parietal lobe
These are three functions of the cerebrospinal fluid.
What is provides cushion for brain structure, reduces pressure on brain structures, removes harmful substances, and transports hormones to remote sites in brain?
The glossopharyngeal nerve-IX controls taste and this other function.
What is swallowing?
This is the reason it is called wet macular degeneration.
What is that new blood vessels form under retina and macula; this fluid leakage and bleeding alter shape of macula leading to distorted vision?
A PFT (pulmonary function test) is most commonly used to detect this type of respiratory problem?
What is obstructive lung diseases?
This upper motor neuron system is responsible for fine, skilled movements of the skeletal muscles.
What is the pyramidal system?
These are the most common locations of spinal cord injury.
What is C5-C7, T12, and L1?
These are the functions of the vagus-X nerve. Name at least 3.
What is sensations of larynx, throat, abdomen (GI tract), and thoracic viscera (heart and lungs); palate movement, swallowing, gagging, heart rate and peristalsis?
These types of nerve fibers are large and transmit information about proprioception.
What are A alpha nerve fibers?
These are adventitious lung sounds that may sound like a snapping, popping, or bubbling during inspiration and expiration.
What are crackles?