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A&P 1 L 6 Flashcards

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The wall of the axon is made up of a group of cells called__________ (w/ same breaks in the same places)

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Schwann Cells

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Cytoplasm of a neuron is called

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Neuroplasm

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Bigger axons have another covering over the Schwann cells called ___________ (w/ the same breaks in the same places)

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Myelin sheath

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The entire neuron is covered by the outer membrane called the___________ (w/ no breaks)

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Neuralemma

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What are the 5 P’s of stress?

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Physical, physiological, pathological, psychological, psychosocial

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What carries impulses to the brain & spinal cord

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Sensory neurons

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What carries impulses to the effectors

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Motor neurons

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Which nervous system is voluntary & involves the skeletal muscles

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Somatic N.S

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What nervous system is involuntary & involves the heart, glands, smooth muscles

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Autonomic N.S

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Fight or flight

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Sympathetic

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Restorative activates

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Parasympathetic

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5 P’s of stress: skipping meals (hypoglycemia)

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Physiological

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5 P’s of stress: can’t take test when ill

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Pathological

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5 P’s of stress: can’t take test

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Psychological

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5 P’s of stress: peer pressure

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Psychosocial

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Pituitary gland: Anterior Lobe: growth hormone

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Somatotropin

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Pituitary gland: Anterior Lobe: stimulates the secretion of milk in mammals

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Prolactin

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Pituitary gland: Anterior Lobe: stimulates cells in the thyroid glands & produces/releases hormones (tropic hormone)

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Thyroid Stimulating Hormones (TSH)

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Pituitary gland: Anterior Lobe: carbohydrate regulation (tropic hormones)

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Adrenocorticatropic hormone (ACTH)

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Pituitary gland: Anterior Lobe: promotes the development of follicules that contains eggs (gonadotropin hormones)

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Follicule Stimulating Hormone (FSH)

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Pituitary gland: Anterior Lobe: works in conjunction with FSH for growth of follicule (gonadotropin hormone)

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Luteinizing Hormone (LH)

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What are the 2 gonadotropic hormone produced by the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland

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Follicule Stimulating Hormone (FSH) & Luteinizing Hormone (LH)

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Pituitary gland: Intermediate lobe: in many vertebrate, stimulates color change & function is unknown in man

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Melanocyte Stimulating Hormone

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What part of the pituitary gland stores & releases hormones produced by the hypothalamus?

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Posterior lobe

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What are the 3 functions of the Nervous System?

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Sensory,integrative, & motor

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3 functions of N.S: Ability to sense changes inside & outside the body

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Sensory

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3 functions of N.S: determining the correct response to a stimulus

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Integrative

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3 functions of N.S: effect glands/muscles

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Motor

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28
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Lack of iodine

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Goiter

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Lack of thyroxine in children that could lead to severe mental/physical retardation

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Cretinism

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Too little thyroxine

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Hypothyroidism

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Too much thyroxine

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Hyperthyroidism

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Master gland of the body (located base of the brain)

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Pituitary gland

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33
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What are the 3 lobes of the pituitary gland

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Anterior lobe, intermediate lobe & posterior

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34
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What are the 2 hormones produced by the thyroid gland

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Thyroxine & calcitonin

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35
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What 5 hormones are produced by the hypothalamus

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Thyrotropin Releasing Hormone (TRH), Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone (GRH), Somatotropin Releasing Hormone, Oxytocin & antidiuretic hormone (ADH)

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Hypothalamus hormone: stimulates the release to TSH from the pituitary gland

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Thyrotropin Releasing Hormone (TRH)

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Hypothalamus hormone: controls the release of LH & FSH

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Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone (GRH)

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Hypothalamus hormone: inhibits the release of somatotropin

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Somatostatin Releasing Hormone

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Hypothalamus hormone: uterine contractions at childbirth & letting down of milk

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Hypothalamus hormone: increases the permeability of nephrons to water & increases blood pressure in many vertebrates

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Antidiuretic Hormone (ADH)

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What 2 hormones of the hypothalamus are stored & release by the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland

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Oxytocin & antidiuretic hormone (ADH)

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Thyroid Gland hormone: accelerates rate of cellular metabolism

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Thyroid gland hormone: inhibits the release of calcium ions from bones

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Calcitonin

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What 2 glands produced somatostatin?

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Hypothalamus & pancreas

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What gland produces the parathyroid hormone (parathormone)

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Parathyroid glands

46
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The pineal gland produce

47
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The smallest endocrine gland

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Pineal gland

48
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Regulation of dark/light cycle (sleep during the night & awake during the day) :[circadian rhythm]

49
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Resetting your biological clock

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Entrainment

50
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What are the 2 gonads

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Testes & ovaries

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Every male hormones are

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Every female hormone are

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The cranial & spinal nerves are pat of what division of the nervous system

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Peripheral N.S

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What specific division of the nervous system controls the voluntary or skeletal muscles

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Somatic N.S

55
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Where are the nissl bodies found?

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In the neuroplasm of the neurons

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What is the function of a nissl body

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Transport materials

57
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Narrow gaps in the myelin sheath are known as

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Nodes of ranvier

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Unmyelinated nerve tissue appears what color

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What type of neurological cells help support neurons & phagocytize bacterial cells & cellular debris

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If the cytoplasm of a neuron is positively charge with respect to the extracellular fluid surrounding it, a what potential exists

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Action or electrical

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The junction between 2 neurons is called

62
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Acetylcholine is the most common what

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Neurotransmitter

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Afferent neurons are also known as what neurons

64
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Where is cholinesterase produced

65
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What is meant by “saltatory conduction”

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The jumping of a nervous impulse from node to node

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What gland is considered to be the “master glands” of the body

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Pituitary gland

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An action potential is always carried toward the cell body of a neuron by

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A reflex arc always begin with what & end with what

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Receptor; effector

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The effector is

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Muscle & glands

70
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Where is an inter neuron or association neuron located

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Brain or spinal cord (CNS)

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What specific division of the N.S is responsible for the “fight or flight” response

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Sympathetic

72
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What part of the brain is responsible for the coordination of the body

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Cerebellum

73
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Glands that secrete their products into ducts are known as what glands

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Which lobe of the pituitary gland stores and secretes hormones produced by the hypothalamus

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Posterior lobe

75
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The hormone calcitonin is produced and secreted by what gland

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What hormone is secreted in response to hypoglycemia and which gland secretes it

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Glucagon; pancreas

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Melatonin is produced by which gland

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Pineal gland

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Male sex hormones are collectively called

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Prostaglandins are unlike hormones because that are composed of

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Fatty acids

80
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Reflex arc is a

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Defense mechanism

81
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What is the order of the reflex arc

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  1. Receptor
  2. Sensory neuron
  3. Inter neuron
  4. Motor neuron
  5. Effector
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What can conduct nervous impulses

83
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What support neurons in the central N.S “only”

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Neuroglial cells

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What are very small in size compared to neurons, scattered thru out the CNS & more than neurons

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Neuroglial cells

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4 types of neuroglial shapes: star-shaped

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Astrocytes

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4 types of neuroglial shapes: along the axon & help produce myelin sheath

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Oligoderdrocytes

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4 types of neuroglial shapes: scavenger cells & phagocytic

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4 types of neuroglial shapes: cube—-> columns & line ventricles in the brain & spinal column

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What are the 3 functions of astrocytes

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Regulate ion concentration, form scar tissue & feed neurons

90
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What can’t mature nucleuses undergo

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