LAB Quiz 4 Flashcards
The structure that coordinates and fine-tune skeleton muscle movement.
Cerebellum
The structure that gets its name from its resemblance to the branches of trees?
Arbor vitae
What is the name of the structure is located on the middle of the cerebellum?
Vermis
The portion of the brain where conscious thought process are made?
Cerebrum
What is the name of the structure that is where the lobes are located?
Left Cerebal Hemisphere
and Right Cerebal Hemisphere
What is the structre that divides the Cerebrum into hemispheres?
Longitudinal fissure
What struture is primarily involved in concentration, verbal communication, decision-making, and personality?
Frontal lobe
What structure is primarily involved in touch and proprioception?
Proprioception: Body awareness
Parietal Lobe
What structure is involed in hearing and smelling?
Temporal Lobe
What structure is responsible or processing visual information and storing visual memories?
Occipital Lobe
What is the sulcus that divides the frontal lobe from the parietal lobes?
Central Sulcus
The gyrus that houses the Primary Motor Cortex?
Precentral gyrus
The gyrus that houses the Primary Somatosensory Cortex?
Postcentral gyrus
The sulcus that separates the temporal lobe from the frontal and parietal lobe?
Lateral sulcus
What is the name of the fissure that cuts the occipital lobe (cerebral) and the cerebellum?
Transverse fissure
The region of the brain that regulates essential survival functions like breathing, blood pressure, and heart pressure?
Brainstem
The sulcus that separates the parietal and occipital lobes?
parieto-occiptial sulcus
Neuron
- Is the structural unit of the nervous system.
- It’s responsiveness to a stimulus
- ability to propagate electrical signal
- release of neurotransmitter in response to conductive activity
- cell can live throughout person’s lifetime
- after fetal development, mitotic activity is lost in most neurons
How many nerves are in the cervical part of the spine?
8 nerves
How many nerves are in the thoracic part of the spine?
12 nerves
How many nerves are in the lumbar part of the spine?
5 nerves
What body parts have CNS?
Brain and Spinal Cord
What body parts contain PNS?
Nerves and ganglia
Name one of the cells that are apart of PNS?
Schwann Cells