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CSA Exam 2 Flashcards

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Peripheral Nervous System

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Cranial and spinal nerves, sensory, motor, somatic nervous system, autonomic nervous system

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Afferent Nervous System

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Deals with the incoming sensory/afferent pathways

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Efferent Nervous System

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Outgoing motor pathways

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Somatic nervous System

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Carries info to the skeletal muscles

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Autonomic Nervous system

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carries info to the smooth muscles, cardiac muscles and gland

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Sympathetic Nervous System

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Fight or flight

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Parasympathetic Nervous System

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resting

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Half of the nervous tissue is

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Neuroglia

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Astrocytes

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Contributes to the blood brain barrier, star shaped, grade 3/4

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Oligodendrocytes

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Produce myelin sheath, grade 2

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Microglia

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phagocytize pathogens and damaged tissue

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Ependymal cells

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Line the ventricles, cilia, circulation and sometimes manufacturing of CSF

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Schwann Cells

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Myelinate Axons in the PNS

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Satellite Cells

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Support neurons in PNS

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Neuron

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Cell body, conduct impulses that make all functions possible

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Plexuses

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Cervical, brachial, lumbar, sacral

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Dermatomes

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Areas of skin that provide sensory input to one pair of spinal nerves or one spinal cord segment.

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Pineal Body

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biological clock located below the splenium

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