Nervous System
What is another name for nerve cell?
Neuron
The 4 lobes of the brain?
What are the frontal lobe, parietal lobe, Occipital lobe, and temporal lobe?
This disease of the central nervous system that affects movement and includes tremors
What is Parkinson's disease?
The function of cranial nerve II
What is vision?
The functional cell of nervous system
What is the neuron?
Function of the axon
What is to conduct impulse away from the cell?
The 3 parts of the brain stem?
What are: midbrain, pons, and medulla oblongata?
Inflammation of the brain
What is encaphalitis?
The number of pairs of spinal nerves
What is 31 pairs?
Portion of the brain that is responsible for the highest level of thought
What is the cerebrum?
The term meaning inflammation of the meninges
Meningitis
Part of the brain that is responsible for balance,muscle tone, coordination of muscle movement
What is the cerebellum?
Other term for cerebrovascular accident
What is a stroke
It is known as fight or flight response system
What is the sympathatic nervous system?
These provide support and protection for neurons
What are glial cells?
Function of the Nervous System
What is to receive sensory input, process it, and issue commands?
The layer of the meninges deep to the dura mater
What is the arachnoid mater?
Controls the involuntary actions of the body such as the functioning of internal organs
What is the autonomic nervous system?
Protective covering of nerves that are made up of glial cells
What is the myelin sheath?
These are the 3 types of neurons based on shape
What are unipolar, bipolar, multipolar
Relays sensory stimuli from spinal cord and midbrain to the cerebral cortex
What is the thalamus?
A condition where the spinal cord extrudes out of the vertebral column
What is spina bifida?
The nerves that originate near the base of the brain
What are the cranial nerves?
The privileged blood supply of the brain and spinal cord
What is cerebro-spinal fluid?