Endocrine System
Type of gland that releases their secretions into a duct to outside body
What is an exocrine gland?
The part of kidney where urine production takes place.
What are the nephrons?
The parts of the central nervous system.
What are the brain and spinal cord?
The two divisions of the nervous system
What are the CNS and PNS?
The lobe of the brain that controls hearing and smell
What is the temporal lobe?
Type of gland that releases hormones into the bloodstream
What is an endocrine gland?
Medical term that means condition of blood in the urine.
What is hematuria?
The part of a neuron that conducts the electrical impulse towards its destination.
What is an axon?
The tracts of the spinal cord that carries motor commands from brain to peripheral nerves.
What are the descending tracts?
The lobe of the brain that controls vision.
What is the occipital lobe?
The two sections of the adrenal gland.
What are the medulla and cortex?
The stage of urine production that involves returning water, nutrients, and electrolytes to the blood stream.
What is reabsorption?
The tracts of the spinal cord that carries sensory information from the body to the brain.
What are ascending tracts?
The name of the space within the meninges around the brain that contains cerebrospinal fluid.
What is the subarachnoid space?
The most anterior portion of the cerebrum.
What is the frontal lobe?
The endocrine portion of the pancreas that secretes insulin and glucagon.
What is the islets of Langerhans?
The therapeutic procedure that uses an artificial kidney machine.
What is hemodialysis?
The three layers of the connective tissue (meninges) from external to internal.
What are the dura mater, arachnoid layer, and pia mater?
The place the spinal cord begins and the place the spinal cord ends.
What is the medulla oblongata to the 2nd lumbar vertebrae?
The most superior portion of the brain that interprets language and sensory information.
What is the parietal lobe?
The three hormones secreted by the thyroid gland.
What are thyroxine, triiodothyronine, and calcitonin?
The order of the four structures that filtrate travels through the renal tubules.
What is the proximal convoluted tubule, loop of Henle, distal convoluted tubule, and collecting duct.
The two functions of the cerebellum.
What is coordinates voluntary body movements and maintains balance?
The two parts of the diencephalon.
What are the thalamus and hypothalamus?
The three parts of the brain stem.
What are the pons, midbrain, and medula oblongata?