Nervous System
The two main parts of the central nervous system (CNS)
What are the Brain and the Spinal Cord?
Number of bones in an adults body
What is 206 bones?
This involuntary muscle type is found exclusively in the muscles of the heart
What is Cardiac Muscle?
The acid the stomach secretes
What is Hydrochloric acid?
The planet that rotates on its side
What is Uranus?
The structure carries messages between the brain and the rest of the body
What is the Spinal Cord?
The part of the skeleton that includes arm, legs, shoulder, hips
What is the Appendicular Skeleton?
This muscle type lines with walls of hollow organs (ex. stomach, blood vessels)
What is Smooth Muscle?
The food after partial digestion in the stomach
What is Chyme?
The national animal of Scotland
What is a Unicorn?
The three protective layers surrounding the brain and the spinal cord
What are the Dura mater, Arachnoid mater, and Pia mater?
The patella is an example of this type of bone
What is a Sesamoid bone?
This specific nerve pathway controls the involuntary response of pulling your hand away from a hot surface.
What is a Reflex arc?
What is Pancreas?
The difference between Concave and Convex
What is the difference is Concave curves inwards and Convex curves outwards
This spinal cord tract carries pain and temperature information from the opposite side of the body
What is the spinothalamic tract?
The type of joint found in the knee and elbow
What is a Hinge joint?
Extension of the ankle so that the foot points down and away from the leg
What is Plantarflexion?
The esophagus and small intestine move the food using this involuntary muscular movement
What is Peristalsis?
This vegetable is the principal ingredient in the Irish pancake dish, Boxty
What is a potato?
A person loses fine touch, vibration, and awareness of body position in their right lower limb after a spinal cord injury. This tract and side were most likely damaged.
What is the Right Fasciculus Gracilis?
The two systems work together to allow movement
What are the Skeletal and Muscular Systems?
Turning the anterior surface of a limb or body part toward the body's midline
What is Medial rotation?
What is Pylorus?
The answer to the long lived debate: "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?"
What is an egg?