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Addison’s disease

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A disorder in which the adrenal glands don’t produce enough hormones.

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Light and vision

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Light hits the retina, goes through a path to end in an optic nerve

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Characteristics of elastic cartillage

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Like hyaline cartillage, but contains yellow elastic fibers like in the ear

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Hyaline cartillage

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Pearly, on the ends of joints, made up of chondrocytes

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Neurons

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Carries nerve impulses, axon sends, recieves via the dendrite

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Plasma membrane

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Made up of a lipid bilayer, only hydrophobic molcules get pushed through

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Chemicals in the human body

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Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen

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Afferent nerves

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Sends signals to cns

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Efferent nerves

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Sends impulses to muscles from the CNS

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Endomysium

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Connective tissue within the muscle

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Ganglia

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Grouping of nerves muclei within the CNS

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HAVERSIAN CANALS

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Narrow tubes moving nutrients around the lamellae of the bone

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Lacuna

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A cavity within the long shaft of a bone

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14
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Mixed nerves

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Nerves sending impulses both ways for multiple purposes

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Monnosaccharide

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Sugars

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Motor nerves

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Nerves innervsting muscles making them move

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Myofibril

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Elongated strands that are moving ahainst one another to cause muscle contraction

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Myofilaments

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Myofilaments are the filaments of myofibrils constructed from proteins. Their arrangement make up the three kinds of muscles

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Nerve tract

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A bundke if myelinated fibers following a path through the brain nerve tract

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Nerves

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Bundles of nerve fibres running in primary tracts from the spinal cord outward

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Nuclei

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Where the dna is stored in a cell

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Nucleic acid

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The buidling blocks of DNA, ADANINE, GUANINE, TAURINE, CYTOSINE

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Perimysium

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Layer above the muscles, lunricates and protects against infection

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Peroxisomes

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Small organelle, present in the cytoplasm that contains catalase and oxidase

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Polysaccharide

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Bigger sugar chains

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Proteins

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Amino acids coming together

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Sarcolema

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Transparent sheath that envelops the fibers of the skeletal muscles

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Sarcomere

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A structural unir if a myofibril in striated muscles, consisting of a dark band and pale band

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Sarcoplasmic reticulum

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The specialized ER of cardiac muscles and skeletal striated muscles amd stores calcium

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Epimysium

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Thin transparent membrane covering a skeletal muscle

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31
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Trabecula

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Groups of connective tissue forming bones

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32
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VOLKMANN’S CANAL

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Blood vessel carrying holes in a bone

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33
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Gap junction

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Inntracellular junctions between a multitude of animal cells

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34
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Gouty arthritis

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Arthritis from eating fatty foods, uric acid crystals in the joint

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35
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Homeostatic imbalance

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Illness

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36
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Motionsickness

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Cochlea and inner ear fluid is messed up in the worst kinda way

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Osmosis

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Transfering if water across a permeable bilayer

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38
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Phagocytosis

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Cells eating other cells

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39
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Spastic paralysis

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Nerve severed, but there are still slight impulses working their way across the muscle

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40
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Survival needs

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Food and water and shelter and oxygen and warmth

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41
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Proper nerve impulses

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Proper ions and electrical impulses

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42
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Colloid solution

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Anything with visible particulate

43
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Decomposition reactions

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Chlorates break down into salts

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Exhange reactions

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Copper and silver nitrate

45
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Positive feedback

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Oxytocin and childbirth

46
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Causes of conduction deafness

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Damage to the middle ear, sound does not conduct to the tymapnic membrane porperly

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Suspensions

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Dissolved so you can see the particulates

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Columnar epithelia

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Secrete digestive enzyme

49
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Cuboidal epitheleum

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Protection

50
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Squamous epitheleum

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Uneven epithelium, digestion

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Aqueous humor

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Behind cornea in front of lens

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Ceruminous glands

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Cochlea

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Inner ear snail organ

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Compact bone

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Bone that is mineralized

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Cornea

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Avasscular tissue that refracts light

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Iris

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Control light input

57
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Lens

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Light refraction

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Limbic system

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Microtubules

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Within the cells highway of transport

60
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Oligodendrocytes

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Nervous helper cells

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Reticular fibers

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Help in muscle cells

62
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Reticular formation

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Moves things amongst cells

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Rods

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Black and white darkness vision

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Traebuclar bone

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Semicartilagnious bone

65
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Tympanic membrane

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Vibrates sound for pickup in the inner ear

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Vestibule

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An antechamber of the ear

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Ans

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All the stuff we dont think about

68
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Apocrine glands

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Specialized sweat gland

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Articular cartillage

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Bone on bone cartillage action

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Astrocytes

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Cells carrying blood to nuerons

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Bursae

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Padding between bones

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Chondrocyte

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Cartillage cells

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Collagen fibres

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Make up hair and nails

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Eccrine

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Normal sweat

75
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Apocrine

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Stank glands

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Elastic fibres

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Make things streatchy

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Ependymal

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Lining of the spinal cord

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Irregular bones

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Ligaments

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Muscle to bone

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Limbic association

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Mammary glands

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Produce breast milk

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Menisci

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Tiny tendons

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Mitochondria

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Powerhouse of the cell

84
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Microglia

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Small cells that assist nerves in doing stuff

85
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Muscle fibers

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Movein dem bines doe

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Osteoblasts

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Build up the bone

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Osteoclasts

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Break down the bone

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Osteocytes

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Bone cells

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Posterior asociation area

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Written language

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Prefrontal cortex

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Knowledge storage

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Primary somatosensory cortex

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Sensing body movements

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T tubules

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Sliding filaments and nonesense with muscles

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Tendons

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Muscle to bone

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Lens

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Refractory piece of material between the cornea and vitreous humor, refracts light again so that the photons hit the right way

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Carbohydrate storage

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Sugar molecules are processed by enzymes in the pancrease, leftover energy converted to fatty tissues

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Cranial bone formation

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Cartillage

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How do we smell

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Olfactory receptors pick up molecules in the air

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Optic disk

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Blindspot where the optic nerve leaves the eye

99
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Taste buds

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Fungiform, fibreform, fungiform taste

100
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Location of the white matter

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Outside the spine, inside the brain

101
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Major ion inside cell

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Ion outside

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Thalamus

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Interoreta body movement and some limbic function

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Salts

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Ionically bonded compounds

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