Lab Week 8 (exam 3) Flashcards

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1
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What are the 2 major parts of the nervous system?

A

1) Central Nervous System (CNS)

2) Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)

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2
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What organs does the CNS consist of?

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Brain and spinal cord

Bony protection

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3
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What do the nerves of the PNS do?

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Nerves that extend out from CNS (from bony protection)

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4
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Is the CNS and PNS division natural or unnatural and why?

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Unnatural

More for convenience

Doesn’t represent 2 fundamentally different things

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5
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What are the nerves of the PNS?

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1) sensory nerves

2) motor nerves

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What do sensory nerves do?

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Carry info with receptors sending info to CNS

Go into CNS

Afferent- going into something

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7
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What are motor nerves?

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Outgoing- efferent

Command that cause certain things to happen in the body

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8
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What does somatic mean?

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Skin and musculature

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9
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What does visceral mean?

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Internal organs

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10
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What is somatic sensory?

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Senses you have in skin (touch, pain, hear, cold)

Some muscles have this

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What is visceral sensory mean?

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Info from internal organs

You’re unaware of it

Some conscious awareness
Ex: stomach pain

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12
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What does somatic motor mean?

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Nerves control movement of body

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13
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What is visceral movement or autonomic nervous system (ANS)?

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Outgoing commands of all organs in the body

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14
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What are the 2 parts of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and explain

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1) sympathetic-
- flight and fight responses (prepare for action)

2) parasympathetic-
- rest and digest (slowing organs down)

Every organ has both

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15
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What are the nerve tissues?

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1) neurons

2) global cells or neuroglia

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16
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What are glial cells or neuroglia?

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Schwanns cell= neurolemmocyte

Support neurons and functions (supporting cell)

17
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What is the neuron cell body called?

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Soma

18
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What are the nerve signals towards the soma called?

A

Dendrite

19
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What is the single branch that brings nerve signals away from the soma?

A

Axon

20
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What are the branching at the end of the axon called?

A

Axon terminal branches

21
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What is a multipolar neuron?

A

Structural classification of neurons based on how many processes there are

A lot of processes

22
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What connects neurons together?

A

Interneurons

23
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What is a unipolar or pseudounipolar?

A

Single process connected to soma

24
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What are the function unipolar?

A

Sensory

25
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What is bipolar?

A

2 processes

One bringing in and other taking out

26
Q

What are the special sensory?

A

Seen in retina (light sensitive portion of the eye)

Olfactory (sense of smell) epithelium

27
Q

What is the cytoplasm?

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Liquid (jelly like) inside of cell

28
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What is the nucleus?

A

Control center of cell

29
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What is the nucleolus?

A

Inside of nucleus makes ribosomes

30
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What are the nissil bodies?

A

Packages of rRNA found in cytoplasm of neuron

Like roughendoplasmic (RER)

31
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What are organelles?

A

Little organ like structured that perform different functions

32
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What is the axon coming out of the axon called?

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Collateral axon

33
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What is the axoplasm?

A

Goo inside axon

Cytoplasm of the axon

34
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What is the nucleus of neurolemmocyte?

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Nucleus of Schwanns cell

35
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What is a myelin sheath?

A

Sheath of nylon material

36
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What is neurolemma?

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Coating over axon composed of mylin

37
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What is it called where the axon is exposed?

A

Neurofibral node (node of Ranvier)

38
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What are the functions of multipolar?

A

Motor interneurons

39
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What are the functions of bipolar?

A

Special Sensory