Pages 49-57 Test

Question 1

Spinal Cord

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Tissues connecting the brain to the back

Question 2

Ganglion

Answer 2

Structure with a number of nerve cell bodies

Question 3

The human body was designed by the Creator God and it is more than just a collection of ______.

Answer 3

Chemicals

Question 4

Without the ________ cord the brain would be unable to receive sensory info from your body or tell your body what to do

Answer 4

Spinal

Question 5

ALS

Answer 5

Nervous system disease affecting nerve cells in the brain

Question 6

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (als) is aka Lou ________ disease.

Answer 6

Gehrig’s

Question 7

The dorsal root ganglion contains the cell bodies of sensory _______.

Answer 7

Nerves

Question 8

Peripheral nervous system

Answer 8

Part of nervous system outside central nervous system

Question 9

Olfactory (I) nerves

Answer 9

Related to smell

Question 10

Optic (II) nerves

Answer 10

Relating to vision

Question 11

Bell’s palsy

Answer 11

Muscle weakness on 1 side of the face

Question 12

The ____ nerve carries nerve impulses for vision

Answer 12

Optic

Question 13

Bell’s palsy is caused by inflammation of the facial nerve, usually due to a ____ infection

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Viral

Question 14

Carpal tunnel syndrome

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Median nerve is pressed at wrist

Question 15

Shingles

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Painful inflammation of nerve

Question 16

Reflex

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Automatic action of organ or muscle

Question 17

With an _____ reflex you remain unaware of what happened

Answer 17

Autonomic

Question 18

Neurons of the somatic motor system form networks of fibers called _______, each located near the effector organ or region it serves.

Answer 18

Plexuses

Question 19

The sympathetic nervous system is called the “ _____ or flight” system

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Fight

Question 20

Mechanoreceptors

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Sense mechanical stress, like pressure

Question 21

Chemoreceptors

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Special cells sensitive to changes in chemical or substance

Question 22

Photoreceptors

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Contained in retina of eye and senses light

Question 23

Thermorecptors

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Respond to temperature changes

Question 24

The special senses are taste sight smell hearing and ____

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Balance

Question 25

If English odorant molecules trigger the ______ cell an impulse is sent down the entire length of the neuron

Answer 25

Receptor

Question 26

Fungiform papillae

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Mushroom shaped and scattered along the surface of the tongue

Question 27

Umami

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Taste produced by amino acids

Question 28

Our ability to taste depends on our ability to detect, then react to certain ________ in our environment

Answer 28

Chemicals

Question 29

Taste ___ are found in the side walls of the foliate and circumvallate papillae

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Buds

Question 30

Tympanic membrane

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A.k.a. eardrum, vibrate when sound hits it, and it’s boundary between entering the middle ear 

Question 31

Cochlea

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Spiral chamber made of bone, snail shell

Question 32

The external auditory canal is a tube through which sound waves move towards the tympanic membrane (_____) 

Answer 32

Eardrum

Question 33

The ________  that start on the eardrum, are going to be transmitted to the hammer, then to the anvil, then to the stirrup and to the oval window 

Answer 33

Vibrations

Question 34

Sound

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Series of vibrations

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Hearing

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Ability to convert sound waves to action potentials to be transmitted to the brain

Question 36

Vertigo

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Sensation of moving, when not actually moving; dizziness

Question 37

Labyrinthitis

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Inflammation of inner ear

Question 38

When we hear something we are sensing sound _______ from the environment 

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Waves

Question 39

The greater the_____ the louder, the sound

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Amplitude

Question 40

The loud of the sound reaching the tympanic membrane the _______ the membrane is pushed while vibrates

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Farther

Question 41

When the tympanic membrane vibrates causes movement in 3 _____ of the middle ear

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Bones

Question 42

The basilar membrane is ______ to respond to different frequencies along the length

Answer 42

Tuned

Question 43

Corneal abrasion

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Scratch on eye

Question 44

Glaucoma

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Drainage canal is blocked because too much fluid stays in the eye and damages the optic nerve

Question 45

Cataract

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Clouding of lens of eye

Question 46

The outer layer of the eye consist of two parts; the sclera and the ______

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Cornea

Question 47

The iris is around flat layer of smooth muscle with an opening in the middle called ______

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Pupil

Question 48

The ____ are the receptors that are most sensitive to light. Without them, we cannot see in the light or at night

Answer 48

Rods

Question 49

There are three types of – – – ; blue ones which are obviously sensitive to blue light, red ones which sense, red light and green ones which detect green light

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Cones

Question 50

When light passes through a transparent object, it can be bent or _____

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