Anatomy - Lab 3 Flashcards
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Name the 3 functions of the nervous system tissue
- use sensory receptors to monitor changes inside/outside the boty (sensory input) 2. process and interpret the sensory input and make decisions (integration) 3. dictate a response by activating the effector organ.
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Identify the 4 basic divisions of the nervous system
- sensory 2. sensory visceral 3. motor somatic 4. motor visceral
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Describe the functions of the sensory somatic
Very widespread, touch, pain, pressure, vibration, and temperature, proprioception (sensing one’s own body)
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Describe the functions of the sensory visceral
stretch, pain and temperature (ex: digestive, urinary tracts/reproductive organs)
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Describe the functions of the motor somatic
unpaired neuron – stimulates contractions of the skeletal muscles (voluntary nervous system)
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Describe the functions of the motor visceral
2 chains (pre and post ganglionic). Regulates the contraction of smooth and cardiac muscle and secretion of most glands. Makes up the ANS. Involuntary nervou system.
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Identify a typical neuron at a LM level
- neural tissue (excitable portion 2. neuroglial (non-excitable) surrounds and wraps the neurons
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Identify a typical neuron at EM level
- cell body 2. chromatophilic nissil bodies 3. neurofibrils 4. ganglia
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Describe a neuron’s cell body
Soma, spherical, contains dark nucleolus in center
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Describe a chromatophilic nissl body
color loving,’ are large clusters of rough ER and free ribosomes that stain darkly with basic dyes.
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What is the function of a Chromatic Nissl Body
renew membranes of the cell and protein part of cytosol
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Describe a neurofibril
bundles of intermediate filaments that run in a network between the chromatophilic bodies.
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What is the function of a Neurofibril
provides tensile strength to cell body
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Describe a ganglia
clusters of cell bodies. Lie along the nerves of the PNS
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Describe an axon
1 per neuron. arises from cone-like region of the cell body called axon hillock. Impulse generators transmit away from the cell body.
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What is a long axon called?
Nerve fiber
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Describe an axon collateral
branching along the lengtho of the axon (rare compared to dendrites).
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Describe an axon terminal
At the end of the axon terminal branch, where the neurotransmitter is released into the synaptic cleft (extracellular space0
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Describe a dendrite
- process which looks like limbs attached to the cell body 2. most important organelle in the body 3. reception sites of the neuron 4. carry electrical signals TOWARDS the cell body
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Describe a synapse
the site at which neurons communicate, use chemical messengers (neurotransmitters). One direction transmission (mostly).
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How are neurons classified?
by the # of processes that extend from the cell body