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Getting Nervous?
A New "Sense"sation
The Heart of the Matter
Potent Potables
S Words
100
Part of the brain responsible for balance and coordination
What is the cerebellum?
100
Part of the eye that detects light
What is the retina?
100
Blood cells that transport oxygen
What are RBCs?
100
Mr. Elder's Class refrigerator smells like this
What is death?
100
Membranes that line joints
What are synovial membranes?
200
Chemical that carries signals from one neuron to another
What is a neurotransmitter?
200
These are the chemical senses
What are smell and taste
200
Passes electrical impulses from the bundle branches to the ventricular walls
What are Purkinje fibers?
200
This is the taste of savory or meaty food
What is umami?
200
The heart's "pacemaker"
What is the SA node?
300
Part of the brain that controls "higher order" thought and impulse control
What are the frontal lobes?
300
The part of the ear that contains the tectorial membrane and hair cells
What is the cochlea?
300
Valve between the left atrium and left ventricle
What is the mitral (bicuspid) valve?
300
These are the proteins on the surface of RBCs that determine blood type
What are antigens?
300
The most complicated and least understood sense
What is smell?
400
Railroad worker who survived having a metal rod shot through his brain.
Who is Phineas Gage?
400
5 basic tastes
What are sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and umami?
400
Blood pressure when the heart is refilling
What is diastolic?
400
Afferent nerves carry this kind of information
What is sensory?
400
The "white of the eye"
What is the sclera?
500
The two ions involved in an action potential
What are sodium and potassium?
500
Surgery that uses lasers to correct vision problems
What is LASIK?
500
Cranial nerve that plays a role in controlling heart rate
What is the vagus nerve?
500
The most common blood type
What is O+
500
A connection between two neurons
What is a synapse?