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Final 2 Flashcards

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What is the function of the Frontal lobe?

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Planning, Problem Solving, Motivation, Decision making

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What is the function of the Temporal lobe?

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Hearing, Memory, Behavior, Understanding language

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What is the function of the Parietal lobe?

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Sensation, Reading, Understanding spacial relationship

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What is the function of the Occipital lobe?

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Vision, color analysis

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5
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What is the function of the Amygdala?

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Fight, Fight, Freeze

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What is the function of the Hippocampus?

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Memories

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What is the function of the Skeletal muscle?

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Helps move the body

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What is the function of Cardiac muscle?

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Pumps heart

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What is the function of Smooth muscle?

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Helps move objects through hollow spaces

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10
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What is a thick myofilament called?

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Myosin

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What is a thin myofilament called?

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Actin

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What is the function of the muscular system?

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Movement, posture, body temperature, protection, circulation

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What is the function of the circulatory system?

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Blood, gas exchange, waste, transportation, immune system

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14
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What is the point of the heart called?

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Apex

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15
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What does the brain stem do?

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Breathing, heart

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16
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What does the cerebellum do?

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Coordination and balance

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17
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What is polarization?

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When the inside of the plasma has a negative charge compared to the outside

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18
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What is depolarization?

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When the ion channels open allowing for sodium to go in and potassium to go out

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19
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What is acetylcholine?

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A neurotransmitter that helps with muscle movement.

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20
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What is dopamine?

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Regulation of serotonin and helps balance your emotions

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21
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What is serotonin?

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Makes someone happy

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22
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Which side of the heart pumps blood to the body?

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Left side

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23
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Which side of the heart pumps blood to the lungs?

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Right side

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24
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What chambers of the heart receive blood from the veins?

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Right and left atrium

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25
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What chambers of the heart are known as the pumping chambers?

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Right and left ventricles

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26
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What vessels carry blood to the heart?

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Pulmonary veins and vena cava

27
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What vessels carry blood away from the heart?

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Aorta and pulmonary arteries

28
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What is the valve between the right atrium and the right ventricle?

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Tricuspid

29
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What is the valve between the left atrium and the left ventricle?

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Bicuspid

30
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What are the valves between the ventricles and blood vessels?

A

Semilunar valves

31
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What is the pacemaker of the heart?

A

SA node

32
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What is the backup pacemaker of the heart?

A

AV nodes

33
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What is fibrillation?

A

Irregular heartbeat and where electrical signals fired at the same time

34
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What is systole?

A

Contraction

35
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What is diastole?

A

Relaxation

36
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What does the motor neuron do?

A

Tells the sarcomere to slide together using ATP

37
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What is the neuromuscular junction?

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A gap between neuron and cell

38
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What is the motor unit?

A

The nerve and cell

39
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What is the motor end plate?

A

Where the cell ends

40
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What is origin?

A

The place where bone and muscle are attached but it does not move

41
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What is insertion?

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Where the bone and muscles are attached and does move

42
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What is the I band?

A

The light area

43
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What is the A band?

A

The dark area

44
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What is irritability?

A

Ability to receive and respond to a stimulus

45
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What is contractility?

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Ability to shorten when an adequate stimulus is received

46
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What is flexion?

A

Decreases the angle of the joint and brings two bones closer together

47
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What is extension?

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Opposite of flexion

48
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What is rotation?

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Movement of a bone in longitudinal axis, shaking head no

49
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What is abduction?

A

Going away

50
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What is adduction?

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Moving towards

51
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What is circumduction?

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Making a circle

52
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What is a prime mover?

A

Muscle with the major responsibility for a certain movement

53
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What is an antagonist?

A

Muscle that opposes or reverses a prime mover

54
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What is a synergist?

A

Muscle that aids a prime mover in a movement and helps prevent rotation

55
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What is a fixator?

A

Holds bones in place

56
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What is the covering of the heart called?

A

Parietal pericardium

57
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What do the atra’s do?

A

Receiving chambers

58
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What do the ventricles do?

A

Discharging chambers

59
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What is the P wave?

A

Impulse across atria

60
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What is the QRS complex?

A

Spread of impulse down septum, around ventricles in Purkinje fibers

61
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What is the T wave?

A

End of electrical activity in ventricles

62
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What are dendrites?

A

Conduct impulses toward the cell body

63
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What are Axons?

A

Conduct impulses away from the cell body

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