muscles
histology/lobes
gross anatomy
spinal cord and nerves
Reflexes
100
A prime mover is called an:
What is an agonist?
100
The most abundant neuroglia in the CNS.
What are astrocytes?
100
The outermost meninx
What is dura mater ?
100
Fiber tracts that are conducting impulses towards the brain are called:
What are ascending/sensory/afferent tracts?
100
Reflex type that is important to maintain and adjust muscle tone for posture, balance, and locomotion.
What is a stretch reflex?
200
Muscle that originates at the sternum and clavicle and inserts at the temporal bone's mastoid process.
What is the sternocleidomastoid muscle?
200
An area considered to be a motor speech area. It is located in the frontal lobe in only one hemisphere.
What is Broca's area?
200
Small capillary knots hanging from the roof of the ventricles of the brain that continuously form the CSF.
What is the choroid plexus?
200
The sciatic nerve is part of this major plexus
What is the sacral plexus?
200
The reflex type consisting of a flexor (withdrawal) followed by extension of the opposite limb. [Ex: reaction when someone grips your arm]
What is a crossed-extensor reflex?
300
What is the sartorius muscle?
300
Ependymal cells have _____, which helps move CSF.
What is cilia?
300
Within the meninx, the space that separates the dura and arachnoid mater is called
What is the subdural space?
300
The spinal cord extends from the foramen magnum of the skull to the first or second lumbar vertebra at the:
What is the conus medullaris?
300
Reflex type that is initiated by stimulation of receptors in the skin and mucosae. These depend both on functional upper-motor pathways and on the spinal cord-level reflex arc. [ex: plantar reflex]
What is a superficial reflex?
400
The "biceps" in biceps brachii implies that "biceps brachii have ____."
What are 2 origins?
400
In neurons, the rough endoplasmic reticulum is known as this.
What is chromatophilic substance?
400
Specialized photoreceptors in the retina for dim light. Visual interpretation of their activity is in grey tones.
What are rods?
400
This plexus contains the phrenic nerve and innervates the diaphragm.
What is the cervical plexus?
400
Which photoreceptor is responsible for interpreting color and only functions in conditions of high light intensity/
What are cones?
500
Specialized synergists that immobilize the origin of a prime mover so that all the tension is exerted at the insertion.
What are fixators ?
500
Gaps in myelin sheath are called this.
What are nodes of Ranvier?
500
The "white" of the eye.
What is the sclera?
500
In the spinal cord _______ matter is inside (centrally located and butterfly shaped).
What is gray matter?
500
Reflex type that tests somatic motor responses of the glossopharyngeal and vagus nerves.
What is the gag reflex?