Cranial Nerves
What nerve controls facial expressions & taste?
Facial Nerve
Contains cardiac, vasomotor, & respiratory centers
What is the Medulla Oblongata?
What are symptoms anemia can cause?
Fatigue, pallor, and shortness of breath
What fluid does the Lymphatic System transport?
Lymph
A substance capable of triggering an immune response is called?
An Antigen
What symptoms occur with a diseased Vagus nerve?
hoarseness or loss of voice and impaired swallowing, can be fatal.
what are the functions of afferent neurons
sensory nerve that carries impulses toward the CNS
What is the professional medical term for elevated WBC
Leukocytosis
Lymph from the left arm drains into the
Left Subclavian Vein
What is the professional medical term for elevated WBC?
Leukocytosis
Taste buds send gustatory impulses to the brain through which cranial nerves?
Facial, glossopharyngeal, or vagus
what are the functions of efferent
sensory nerves that impulses away from CNS
What does Rh-Negative blood lack?
Substance secreted by injury or irritated cells that produces local vasodilation, among other effects
Histamine
What is the function of histamine in the immune response?
To promote inflammation
What is adaptation?
Nerves from which region of the spinal cord innervate the head, neck, shoulders, arms, hands, and diaphragm?
Cervical
What is the difference between autograft and allograft?
autograft is your own tissue while allograft is donor tissue of the same species
A clear colorless fluid similar to plasma but lower in protein count.
Histamine
This type of immunity is developed after exposure to a disease or through vaccination, allowing the body to remember and respond faster upon the next exposure
Acquired (adaptive) immunity
What detects hot/cold feelings in the skin and hypothalamus?
receptors and thermoreceptors
Brain swelling from a head injury can compress this nerve and interfere with the ability of the pupils to react to light.
Oculomotor
PN is doing a head to toe assessment on a patient symptoms of fatigue, pallor, shortness of breath, elevated heart rate, and low blood pressure. What could the patient be experiencing?
Anemia
what is/are an immediate general defense, skin inflammation, fever, and phagocytes
innate/nonspecific
What is the function of the Humoral and how does it benefit the body when infection is present?
B cells make antibodies (immunoglobulins) that bind antigens and neutralize pathogens