Neurons
A group of neuron cell bodies.
What is a Nucleus or Ganglion?
A clinical assessment tool used to determine damage to the Central Nervous system.
What is a Neurological Exam?
Types of muscles in the human body.
What is Skeletal, Cardiac, and Smooth?
The five classifications for bones.
What are long bones, short bones, flat bones, irregular bones, and sesamoid bones?
The Mnemonic Corn Lovers Grow Several Bales
What Mnemonic is used for Stratum Corneum, Stratum Lucidum, Stratum Granulosum, Stratum Spinosum and Stratum Basale?
A bundle of axons.
What is a Tract or Nerve?
Five major sections of the neurological exam?
What is the mental status exam, cranial nerve exam, sensory exam, motor exam, coordination exam, and gait exam?
The only self excitable muscle in the body.
What is Cardiac Muscle?
The seven bones of the eye socket.
What are the frontal bone, zygomatic bone, maxilla, sphenoid bone, ethmoid bone, palatine bone, lacrimal bone?
The layer of the dermis composed of keratinized, stratified squamous epithelium.
What is the Epidermis?
The two parts of the nervous system.
What is the Somatic Nervous System and the Autonomic Nervous System?
The nerves of the T1-T4 region control this organ of the body.
What is the heart?
The process in which a muscle produces tension without a change in the angle of the joint.
What is an Isometric Contraction?
Trapped within the matrix these cells maintain the mineral concentration of the matrix.
What are Osteocytes?
A genetic disorder which affects the skin, hair, and eye color due to reduced production of melanocytes.
What is Albinism?
The only body system controlled by the Enteric Nervous System.
What is the Digestive Tract?
Two forms of communication used within the body.
What are Hormones, chemical, and electrical signals?
This muscle is used for chewing.
What is the masseter muscle?
These structures contain most of the body's calcium.
What are the bones and teeth?
Crescent moon shaped region of the nail referred to the as little moon.
What is the lanula?
Fiber that connects the neuron with a target.
What is the Axon?
This virus which affects the brain and nervous system affected 15,000 - 20,000 people each year until a vaccine was created.
What is Polio?
A disease that affects the brain, spinal cord, and muscular systems.
These bone structures allow the insertion of vessels and nerves on the right angles.
What are Volkmann's Canals?
This Mnemonic is used in early-stage melanoma diagnosis.
What is ABCDE Asymmetry, Borders, Color, Diameter, Evolving, Elevated, Firm, and growing?