Nervous System
The spinal cord is approximately how long?
What is approximately 17 inches?
Diplopia
What is double vision?
General senses
What are touch, temperature, and pain?
Syncope
What is fainting?
External, middle, and internal are.
What are the 3 sections of the ear?
Afferent and Efferent?
What are the nerves that carry messages from the PNS to the CNS and vice versa?
Conjunctivitis
What is pinkeye?
AKA the inflammation of the conjunctiva.
5 Special Senses
What are vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste?
(Each has a special organ: eyes for seeing, ears for hearing, skin for touch, nose for smelling, and tongue for taste.)
The abnormal inability to sleep.
What is Insomnia
Tympanic membrane?
What is your ear drum?
In the PNS, how many cranial nerves and how many spinal nerves are there?
What are, 12 pairs of cranial nerves and 31 pairs of spinal nerves
Eyebrows and eyelashes serve what purpose?
What is, they protect the eye from foreign objects?
Olfactory sense
What is the sense of smell?
Disturbance in memory, inability to recall past experiences.
What is Amnesia?
The inability to hear.
What is deafness or being deaf?
Containing the brain and spinal cord, CNS stands for what?
What is the Central Nervous System
Eyelids blinking does what?
What is used to protect the eye and keep it moist?
2 classifications of senses
What are the general senses and special senses?
A brain attack, or hemorrhage of blood vessels supplying the brain.
What is a Stroke?
When your ears cause dizziness.
What is vertigo?
This system works with the nervous system to regulate and maintain homeostasis.
What is the endocrine system?
Colorblindness is caused by what?
What is the reaction if your cones do not work efficiently?
Gustatory sense
What is the sense of taste?
An uncontrollable dependence on a substance.
What is an addiction?
Malleus, Incus, and Stapes are.
What are the three bones in the ear.