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Science teastez Flashcards

1
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place where bones meet

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joints

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2
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joint between your fingers and hand

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ellipsoid joint

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3
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allows motion in a single plane

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hinge joint

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4
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inflimation of the joints

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arthiritus

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5
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muscles that you don’t have concious control of

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involountary muscles

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6
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muscle cells in the heart

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cardiac cells

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7
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cells in the invoulntary muscles

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smooth cells

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8
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allows you to close your jaw

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masseter

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9
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either of a pair of large triangular muscles extending over the back of the neck and shoulders and moving the head and shoulder blade

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trapezius

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10
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allows you to sit up

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erectus abdominus

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11
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the chief muscle of the calf of the leg, which flexes the knee and foot. It runs to the Achilles tendon from two heads attached to the femur.

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gastric nemus

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12
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tough 3 layered sheet that protects muscles

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epimesium

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13
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one motor neuron and all of the muscle fibers it innervates

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motor unit

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14
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made up of the brain and spinal cord

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central nervous system

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15
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three membrane layers that cover and protect your brain and spinal cord

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meninges

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16
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supports and insulates cells

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gliale cells

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17
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made up of a large network of nerve fibers (axons) in your brain that allows the exchange of information and communication between different areas of your brain

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white matter

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18
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place where the processing of sensation, perception, voluntary movement, learning, speech and cognition takes place

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gray matter

19
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selective semi-permeable membrane between the blood and the interstitium of the brain

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blood brain barrier

20
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infection of the meninges

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meningitis

21
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attacks spinal cord and can cause paralasis

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polio

22
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controls invouluntary functions

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autonomic nervous system

23
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cells that rarely reproduce

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neurons

24
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disease that attacks the gilale cells

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MS

25
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enclosed junction between two neurons

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synapse

26
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tremors or shaking

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parkinsins

27
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the largest part of your brain, managing all of your conscious thoughts, actions and input from your senses.

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cerebrum

28
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controls left and right side of the brain

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corpus collasum

29
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controls skeletal muscle

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motor area

30
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early damage to the motor area

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cerebral palsy

31
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handles complicated muscle cordination

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cerebellum

32
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controls many vital functions, such as breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure, and the nerves and muscles used in seeing, hearing, walking, talking, and eating

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brain stem

33
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responsible for physical effects of emotion

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hypothalamus

34
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most common disease or negative occurence in the nervous system

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stroke

35
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selectively activated by mechanical, thermal, or chemical stimuli that open sodium channels and elicit axonal depolarization

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pain receptors

36
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the first cranial nerve (CN I) ,enables your sense of smell

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olfactory nerve

37
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bone carrying sound of the voice

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bone conduction

38
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nerve of the eye

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optic nerve

39
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a layer of photoreceptors cells and glial cells within the eye that captures incoming photons and transmits them along neuronal pathways as both electrical and chemical signals for the brain to perceive a visual picture

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retina

40
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area of clearest vision

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fovia

41
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responsible for vision at low light levels

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rods

42
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active at higher light levels (photopic vision), are capable of color vision and are responsible for high spatial acuity

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cones

43
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active at higher light levels (photopic vision), are capable of color vision and are responsible for high spatial acuity

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stigmatism

44
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a group of eye diseases that can cause vision loss and blindness by damaging a nerve in the back of your eye called the optic nerve

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glacoma

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