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Sulci?

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Depression in folds of brain.

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Gyri?

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Raised part of folds in brain.

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Corpus Callosum?

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Connect R & L hemisphere in brain.

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Frontal Lobe?

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Primary motor area, pre-central gyrus.

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Parietal Lobe?

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Somatosensory area, sensory to body, post-central gyrus.

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Temporal Lobe?

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Auditory, olfactory, olfactory bulb have short tract to medial temporal lobe, auditory to lateral temporal lobe.

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Occipital Lobe?

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Visual area.

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Wernicke’s Area?

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Interprets spoken words

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Broca’s Area?

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Producing speech, usually L side.

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I (1)

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Olfactory

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II (2)

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Optic

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III (3)

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Occulomotor

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IV (4)

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Trochlear

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V (5)

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Trigeminal: touch, pain, temperature, mechanoreception, chewing, (3 branches-ophthalmic/maxillary/madibular)

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VI (6)

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Abducens

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VII (7)

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Facial: facial expression, taste, mechanoreception, tears, saliva

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VIII (8)

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Vestibulocochlear

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IX (9)

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Glossopharymgeal: tongue-taste, gag, reflex

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X (10)

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Vagus: parasympathetics

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XI (11)

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Accessory (spinal)

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XII (12)

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Hypoglossal

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General Senses?

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Tactile, pressure/ vibration, itch, pain, thermal, mechanoreception- found all over the body, don’t have a special sensor.

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Touch Receptors?

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Meisner’s corpuscles, merkels discs, ruffini corpuscles.

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Pacinian Corpuscles?

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Pressure & vibration.

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Referred Pain?

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Pain felt I’m an area overlying an organ distant from stimulated organ or source of the pain.

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Fast Pain?

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Rapid, acute, sharp, prickling.

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Slow Pain?

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Dull, gradually increasing, chronic, throb.

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Mechanoreception/ Proprioception?

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Mechanoreceptors, joint position sense, knowing where your body is in space relative to other parts of your body.

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Special Senses?

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Require a special sensory organ, sight sound, taste, smell, equilibrium.

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Lacrimal Gland?

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Secretes tears.

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Lacrimal Duct?

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Open to surface of eyelid, starts on lateral surface & drains medial to nasolacrimal duct & into nasal cavity.

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Lysozyme?

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Enzyme to kill bacteria.

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Eyeball?

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3 layers/ tunics: fibrous, vascular, nervous.

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Cornea?

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Fibrous, transparent coat over iris.

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Conjunctiva?

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Lines eyelid & anterior surface of eye, pinkeye = conjunctivitis.

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Sclera?

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White of the eye, fibrous, dense connective tissue, gives shape.

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Retina?

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Nerve layer, inner coat, lines posterior surface of eye, sensory organ.

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Choroid?

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Vascular layer, thin membrane lines, internal surface of sclera, retina sits on top of choroid.

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Lens?

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Transparent part that focuses light onto retina.

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Iris?

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Colored part, circular & radial muscles, determines how much light enters eye.

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Pupil?

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Hold in center of iris.

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Rods?

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Gray, black & white, dim light, visual activity.

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Cones?

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Color vision.

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Fovea Centralis?

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Small depressions in center of retina where cones most concentrated.

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Optic Disc?

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Axons of cells extend into small area of retina, forms blind spot.

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Vitrious Body?

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Clear, jellylike substance in inner eye.

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Equilibrium- Static Equilibrium?

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Utricle & saccule.

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Equilibrium- Dynamic?

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Semicircular canals.

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Cochlear?

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Snail shell shape spiral canal in bone, contains organ of corti.

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Organ of Corti?

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Organ of hearing, ciliated receptor cells on membrane inside cochlea.

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CNVII-> Cerebellum?

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Message enters to the brainstem, the medulla oblongata & cerebellum coordinate information with input from the eyes & mechanoreceptors.

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