Nervous System
The structural Classification of the nervous system includes this.
What is CNS and PNS?
The anterior pituitary produces __(#)____ hormones.
What is 6?
This type of reflex involves skeletal muscles.
The gland that produces tears in the eye.
What is the lacrimal gland?
This type of reflex (system) stimulates the secretion of saliva, changes in pupil size, and digestion.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
The term central nervous system refers to _______
What is brain and spinal cord?
Prolactin is secreted from this gland.
What is the anterior pituitary gland?
These neurons originate in the CNS and project their axons to the skeletal muscles.
What are motor neurons?
The outermost tunic seen anteriorly as the "white of the eye".
What is sclera?
The brain and spinal cord are protected by three connective tissue membranes that are called...
What are meninges?
The neuron processes that normally receive incoming stimuli.
What are dendrites?
Hormones secreted by the posterior pituitary.
What is ADH (vasopressin) and Oxytocin?
Muscle cells grouped together form a _____
What is a fascicle?
A cold can cause an ear infection when it passes through the auditory tube in what part of the ear?
3 P's of Diabetes Mellitus.
What is Polyphagia, polydipsia, and polyuria?
Cells in the PNS are myelinated by these specialty cells.
What are schwann cells?
Alcohol inhibits the secretion of this hormone.
What is Antidiuretic hormone?
A sliding of thin filaments past thick ones will generate _______
What is a muscle contraction?
The decreased lens elasticity associated with aging that makes it difficult to focus on near objects.
What is presbyopia?
These 2 hormones are NOT considered tropic hormones.
What is growth hormone and prolactin?
2 FUNCTIONAL classifications of nervous system
What is Autonomic and Somatic?
Gonadotropic hormones are released by this gland
What is anterior pituitary gland?
Thick filaments are composed of this filament.
What is myosin?
Tympanic Membrane & Ossicles are located here.
What is the middle ear?
These 2 hormones are released by the thyroid gland.
What is Calcitonin and Thyroid hormone?
My arm pulls away from a heat source - the muscle is stimulated by these nerves.
What are motor (efferent) neurons?
This stimuli refers to the release of hormones in response to other hormones being released.
What is Hormonal stimuli?
This binds muscle to bone.
What is a tendon?
Vibrations from the tympanic membrane are transferred to the inner ear in this order.
What is hammer, anvil, stirrup, oval window?
The ALPHA Cells in the pancreas produce this.
What is glucagon?
Correct sequence of stimulus transfer in a typical reflex arc.
receptor, sensory neuron, association neuron, motor neuron, effector
The hormone that triggers ovulation in the female.
What is the LH hormone?
A contractile unit within a myofibril.
Transparent anterior portion of the sclera.
What is cornea?
Goiters are primarily the cause of this deficiency.
What is iodine?
A spinal nerve consists of these types of nerves.
What are sensory and motor fibers?
Calcitonin is secreted by this gland.
What is thyroid gland?
Fascicles are responsible for making up _____
What is a muscle?
The structure that regulates the amount of light that enters the eye.
What is iris?
One motor neuron and several muscle fibers is called a ________.
What is a motor unit?