Nervous System Anatomy
The name of a nervous system cell.
What is a neuron?
Chemical messengers in the body.
What are hormones?
Regulates the volume and composition of blood and filters blood.
What does the urinary tract do?
Analyzes, processes and responds to nerve impulses from the whole body.
What does the brain do?
It interprets many of our senses
including taste, touch, temperature, and pain.
What does the parietal lobe do?
A neuron with no myelin sheath.
What is grey matter?
Manages such things as growth, metabolism, sleep, blood sugar and sexual traits.
What does the endocrine system do?
They produce urine.
What do kidneys do?
Deals with vision, hearing, eye
movement, and body movement.
What does the midbrain do?
It interprets the sense of sight.
What does the occipital lobe do?
All of the nerves that exit the spinal column.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
Secretes growth hormone and oxytocin.
What does the pituitary gland do?
They transport urine from the kidneys to the bladder.
What do ureters do?
Helps in the transferring of messages
between various parts of the brain
and the spinal cord.
What is one function of the pons?
It interprets the senses of balance
and hearing. It also contains structures (such as the
hippocampus) which store memory.
What does the temporal lobe do?
The Autonomic Nervous System and The Somatic Nervous System
What are the two parts of the peripheral nervous system?
Affects the metabolic rate of almost all of the cells of the body.
What does thyroxine do?
In men they are about 8 inches long, in women they are about 2 inches long.
How long are urethras?
The second largest part of the
brain.
It functions to coordinate muscular movements
and helps the muscles move gracefully and
efficiently. It also helps with the body’s ability to
balance.
What is the cerebellum?
Controls skeletal muscle
movement, interprets the sense of smell, is
responsible for our personalities, and our ability to
learn, think, problem solve and concentrate.
What does the frontal lobe do?
The major communication link between the brain and the body.
What is the spinal column?
Insulin and glucagon.
What are two hormones secreted by the pancreas?
They cause extreme pain, cramping, nausea, vomiting and block the flow of urine.
What are kidney stones?
The cerebrum's folds and grooves they increase the surface area and the number of nerves found in the brain.
What are sulci and
gyri?
It is divided into four lobes.
What is the cerebrum?