Central Nervous System
The protective covering on the outside of the brain.
What are the meninges.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
What is the pupil?
The three portions of the ear.
Wht are the outer ear, the middle ear, and the inner ear?
Organ that is only temporary during a brief period of someone's life.
What is the placenta?
The three types of neurons based on their structure.
What is multipolar, bipolar, and unipolar.
Often referred to as the "rest and repair" division.
What is the parasympathetic division?
The outermost layer of the eye that is made up of the sclera and cornea.
What is the fibrous layer?
The part of the ear that you see when looking at someone.
What is the auricle (or pinna)?
Gland that secretes melatonin and helps with your sleep/wake cycles.
What is the pineal gland?
The three parts of the brainstem, in order from superior to inferior.
What is the midbrain, pons, and medulla oblongata?
The neurotransmitter that is released to stimulate muscle contractions in the motor division.
What is acetylcholine (ACh)?
The clear flexible ball that changes shape to allow you to focus on objects of various distance.
What is the lens?
The tube that connects the outer ear to the middle ear.
What is the external auditory meatus (or auditory canal)?
These glands look like small dots located on the outside of the thyroid gland.
What are the parathyroid glands?
A type of message that carries a message to the brain from the PNS?
What is an afferent or sensory neuron?
Name two types of receptors that could be found in the sensory (afferent) division.
What is: mechanoreceptors, thermoreceptors, photoreceptors, chemoreceptors, nocireceptors (only have to name two).
The ligaments that hold the lens into place.
What are the suspensory ligaments?
The piece of tissue that is the division between the external ear and the middle ear (must say anatomical term).
What is the tympanic membrane?
These glands are located on the superior portion of the kidneys and release hormones that play a role in our body's stress response.
What are the adrenal glands?
Supportive cells that provide nutrition, insulation, and help with signal transmission.
What are neuroglia?
The only two types of effectors that exist.
The colored portion of the eye.
What is the iris?
The organ that contains the hair of corti.
What is the cochlea?
This organ has many functions outside of the endocrine system, but within the endocrine system it releases insulin and glucagon, playing a major role in blood sugar regulation.
What is the pancreas?
Covers long axons to protect and electrically insulate them to increase the speed of nerve impulse transmission.
What is the myelin sheath?
The 5 essential parts of a reflex arc.
The spot on the retina that contains the highest density of rods and cons, resulting in the clearest vision.
What is the fovea centralis?
This organ aids in maintaining balance when head rotates.
What are the semicircular canals?
Often referred to as the "master endocrine gland" because it regulates so many other glands.
What is the anterior pituitary gland?