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CNS
Why do we need chemicals?
I am so thrilled to have muscles again!
Joints and its cushions
Hmmmm
100
cerebral cortex is cell bodies or
What is gray matter?
100
The "bonding" hormone
What is oxytocin?
100
these muscles are deep to the erector spinae group
What is the transversospinalis?
100
articulation at the ribs and thoracic vertebrae
What is the costovertebral joint?
100
The largest nerve in the body
What is the sciatic nerve?
200
Sensory stimuli goes to the brain via this structure
What is the ascending tracts of the spinal cord?
200
The neurotransmitter that is converted into melatonin
What is seratonin?
200
Origin and insertion of transversospinalis muscles
What is origin- transverse processes; insertion- spinous processes?
200
2 amphiarthrotic joints in this mod
What are pubic symphysis and intervertebral joints?
200
motor nerve
What is efferent?
300
100 billion of these are found in the brain
What is neurons?
300
Calms nerves from firing in the central nervous system, and is a major inhibitory neurotransmitter
What is GABA (Amino Gamma-butyric Acid)?
300
Dome like muscle with origins on the posterior ribs, xiphoid process and vertebral bodies of L1 through L3
What is the diaphragm?
300
the center of the vertebral disc
What is the nucleus pulposus?
300
Pathology that can cause unconsciousness and bleeding or hemorrhaging of the brain, usually caused by a trauma to the head
What is a concussion?
400
Produces and secretes cerebrospinal fluid
What is the choroid plexus?
400
Neurotransmitters released during the stress response
What are epinephrine, norepinephrine, and cortisol?
400
Origin and insertion of posterior inferior serratus
What is origin- spinous processes T12 to L3; insertion- ribs 9 through 12?
400
section of the intervertebral disc that cushions the joint
What is the nucleus pulposus?
400
Name 4 types of pain management
What is TENS unit, hypnosis, medication, surgery, acupuncture, acupressure, massage, aromatherapy, guided visualization, meditation/prayer?
500
Language and speech are processed in these areas
What are Wernicke's and Broca's areas?
500
released in an inflammatory response
What is histamine?
500
Name all the muscles that extend the vertebral column (weeks 1 and 2)
What is erector spinae (longissimus, iliocostalis, spinalis); transversospinalis and interspinalis?
500
the erector spinae, transversospinalis, interspinalis and intertransversii muscles all work on these joints
What are the intervertebral joints?
500
the junction between the nerve and the muscle fiber
What is the neuromuscular junction?