Ch 12 Nervous System Flashcards

1
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The order of the nervous system

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Stimulus -> Sensory receptor -> Sensory neuron -> CNS -> Motor neuron -> effector

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2
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What is considered the thermoreceptor?

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Sensory receptors and sensory neurons

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3
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What does the PNS do?

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Collects info and afferent

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4
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What does the PNS do?

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Output and efferent

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5
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What is in the CNS?

A

Brain and spinal cord

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6
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What does the CNS do?

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Integrate

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7
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What are the 4 types of effectors?

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Skeletal muscle, smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, glands

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8
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What’s in the PNS in the system?

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Sensory receptor, sensory neuron, motor neuron and effector

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9
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What’s is the PNS made of?

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Nerves and ganglia

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10
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Bundles of axon

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Nerves

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11
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Clusters of cell bodies

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Ganglia

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12
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Sensory nervous system =

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Afferent nervous system

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13
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What does sensory nervous system do?

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Receives sensory information

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14
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What is somatic sensory system?

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Hearing, vision, touching

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15
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What is visceral sensory system?

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Smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, glands

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16
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Motor nervous system =

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Efferent nervous system

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17
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What muscle is the motor nervous system?

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Skeletal muscle

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18
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What is somatic motor system?

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Sends voluntary signals to skeletal muscles

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19
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What is autonomic motor system?

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Sends involuntary commands to heart, smooth muscle, and glands

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20
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What is in the ANS?

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Sympathetic and parasympathetic

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21
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What is sympathetic?

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Fight or flight and stressor occurring

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22
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What is parasympathetic?

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Rest and digest and controls homeostasis

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23
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What tissue is epineurium?

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Dense irregular connective tissue

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24
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What tissue is perineurium?

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Dense irregular connective tissue

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25
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What tissue is endoneurium?

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Areolar connective tissue

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26
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What does epineurium nerve do?

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Encloses entire nerve

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27
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What does perineurium nerve do?

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Wraps fascicle

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28
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What is fascicle?

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Smaller group of bundles of axons in nerve

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29
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What does endoneurium nerve do?

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Supports neuron and wraps an individual axon

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30
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Two types of nerves

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Cranial and spinal

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31
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Classification nerves for function

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Sensory, motor, mixed nerves

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32
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What is excitability?

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Responsiveness to a stimulus

33
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What is the start of a neuron?

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Excitability

34
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What is conductivity?

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Propagate electrical signal; actin potential in axon

35
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What is secretion?

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Release a neurotransmitter in response to conductive activity

36
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What is extreme longevity?

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How long cells live and same neurons since birth

37
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What is amitotic?

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Mitotic activity is lost in most neurons

38
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What is the point of the cell body?

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Dumping a lot of ions to create an action potential

39
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What is chromatophilic substance made of?

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Ribosomes

40
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What does dendrites receive?

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Receive information and transfers to cell body

41
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What is the axon?

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Long process emanating from cell body

42
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What is axon hillock?

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Attaches to cell body

43
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What is axoplasm?

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Cytoplasm of the axon

44
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What is axolemma?

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Membrane of the axon

45
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What are axon collaterals?

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Splits into branches

46
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What does the axon end with?

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Axon terminal

47
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What do synaptic vesicles do?

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Have neurotransmitters that talk to the next cell

48
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What is the function of axons?

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To conduct action potential

49
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What is the cytoplasm composed of?

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Microfilaments, intermediate filaments, microtubules

50
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What is neurofibrils?

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Form bundles and provide strength

51
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What is retrograde transport?

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To cell body

52
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What is anterograde transport?

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From cell body

53
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What is fast axonal transport?

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Movement along microtubules and powered by ATP

54
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What is slow axonal transport?

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Moved from cell body to knob and is for replacing things

55
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Multipolar neurons

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Many dendrites and one axon

56
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Bipolar neurons

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One dendrite and one axon

57
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Unipolar neurons

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One process extends from cell body

58
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Where are interneurons located?

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Within CNS

59
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What is synapse?

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Neurons connect to another neuron or effector

60
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What is electrical synapse ?

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Presynaptic and postsynaptic neurons bound together by gap junctions

61
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What must happen in chemical synapse?

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Has to diffuse and initiates action potential

62
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What is presynaptic neurons?

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Axon terminal produces signal

63
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What is postsynaptic neurons?

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Receives the signal

64
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What is synaptic cleft?

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Space in between pre and post synaptic neurons

65
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What is glial cells?

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Non excitable, support cells found in CNS and PNS

66
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What is astrocytes?

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Help form blood-brain barrier by wrapping feet around brain capillaries

67
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What does blood-brain barrier control?

A

Which substances have access to brain

68
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What is ependymal cells?

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Line cavities in brain and spinal cord

69
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What is microglia?

A

CNS and immune system for brain

70
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What is oligodendrocytes?

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Slender extension forms myelin sheath

71
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What are satellite cells?

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Insulate and regulate the exchange of nutrients and waste; PNS

72
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What are Schwann cells?

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PNS axons with myelin and cause a faster action potential

73
Q

Neoplasm from unregulated cell growth and supporting tissues

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Tumors

74
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What is myelination?

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Process of wrapping an axon with myelin

75
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How many axon can Schwann cells myelinate?

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1 mm

76
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What is nodes of Ranvier?

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Gaps between Schwann cells

77
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Myelination by oligodendrocytes

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In CNS, one oligodendrocyte and myelinate 1 mm of multiple axons

78
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Unmyelinated axons in PNS

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Axon sits not fully covered

79
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Unmyelinated axons in CNS

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Axons not associated with oligodendrocytes