Directional Terms
What is more distal on the leg, the phalanges or the patella?
What is the phalanges
Short Bones are found where in the human body?
What two structures make up the Central Nervous System (CNS)
The Brain and the Spinal Cord
True
The small space between each neuron cell is called what?
Synaspe
In anatomical position the thumb or the pinky finger are more lateral?
What is the thumb.
List why Cartilage is important?
Provides resistant to flexion, tension, and pressure in the joint.
Serves as a buffer between bones in joints.
Define what a Synaspe is?
It is a small space the is inbetween each neuron. Neurons can bridge that space by using neurotransmitters to spark a action potential.
Explain what a ligament is.
A connective tissue that attaches a bone to another bone.
What is the fatty substance covering most of the axon on a neuron.
Myelin Sheath
What is Anterior?
Provide an example of a ball and socket joint in the body.
Hip, Shoulder joints.
Which layer of the skin contains the nerve endings, blood vessels and sweat glands?
The Dermis, the layer in the middle of the epidermis and the hypedermis (subcutaneous fat)
Explain what a tendon is.
Tendon is a connective tissue that connect a muscle to a bone.
What part of the neuron will accept the neurotransmitter and conduct the action potential?
Dendrites
The cranial cavity is______________ to the thoracic cavity.
What is Superior?
Name components of the Integumentary system.
Skin, oil glands, hair, sweat glands.
Mr. Lueck mentioned that this part of the brain used to be severed in patients suffering from mental disabilities and mental conditions, it connects the two hemispheres and allows them to communicate.
What is the Corpus Collosum
What is the scientific name for a white blood cell?
A lymphocyte
What is the name of the element of the nervous system that REACTS to stimuli. Things like glands or muscles.
Effectors
If injuries are on opposite sides of the body we would consider them to be ipsilateral or contralateral?
What is Contrlateral (think of Contra meaing "Contradicting")
Name 1 structure in the Lymphatic system?
Tonsils, Lymph Nodes, Thymus, Lymphocytes
What are the left and right sides of the brain repsonsible for?
The left side of the brain is responsible Language and Mathamatics, white the right side of the brain is responsible for arts and abstract thinking.
A muscle cell is called what?
Myofibril
The element of the Nervous system is the middle man who transmits information between the receptors and effectors and the CNS.
Conductors