Fight or Flight
The brain & spinal cord.
What are the structures that make up the central nervous system?
The sensory receptor fails to respond.
What is adaptation?
An accessory organ located in the mouth.
What are the salivary glands?
What is protein?
The division of the PNS that is voluntary and controls skeletal muscles.
What is somatic?
CSF is produced in this location.
What is the ventricles of the brain?
The anterior structure is continuous with the sclera.
What is the cornea?
The type of motility that moves contents quickly?
What is peristalsis?
The number of pyruvate molecules generated from a single glucose molecule.
A bundle of neuron fibers in the PNS
What is a nerve?
The thin outer layer of gray matter where higher brain functions occur.
What is cerebral cortex?
The cranial nerve that carries impulses from the retina to the brain.
What is the optic nerve (CNII)?
The primary nutrient digested in the stomach.
What are proteins?
A series of cellular reactions that release energy from nutrients.
What is cellular respiration?
Synapse
What is the junction between two neurons?
Keeps a person awake and alert, as well as screens out unnecessary stimuli.
What is the reticular activating system (RTS)?
The structure that separates the outer ear from the middle ear.
What is the tympanic membrane?
Splitting by means of water.
What is hydrolysis?
A nutrient that must be taken in through diet.
What is essential?
Stress response
What is a sympathetic response?
Contains sensory and motor fibers.
What is a mixed nerve?
The two special senses that respond to chemical stimuli.
What is taste and smell?
The production of this stomach enzyme can be altered by medication.
What is pepsin?
The part of the brain that regulates temperature?
What is the hypothalamus?