Physiology Final

Question 1

What impulses are transmitted by the medula’s white matter?

Answer 1

Sensory and motor

Question 2

What does the cardiovascular center regulate?

Answer 2

The heart and diameter of blood vessels

Question 3

The pons acts as a bridge connecting what?

Answer 3

The spinal cord and medulla to the upper portions of the brain

Question 4

Name some functions of the cerebellum:

Answer 4

Coordination of muscle groups
Regulation of posture
Balance

Question 5

Sensory impulses are relayed and interpreted by the __________

Answer 5

Thalamus

Question 6

Name some functions of the hypothalamus:

Answer 6

Olfactory relay station
Control of body temperature
Regulation of food and fluid intake

Question 7

What is the outer layer of the cerebrum called?

Answer 7

The cortex

Question 8

Emotional aspects of survival behavior is a function of the ________

Answer 8

Lambic system

Question 9

Taste buds are what type of organs

Answer 9

Gustatory systems

Question 10

True or false.

Sweet is a primary taste sensation

Answer 10

False

Question 11

What is missing from your blind spot?

Answer 11

Rods and cones

Question 12

What is the thin transparent mucus membrane covering the anterior of the eye and lining the eyelids

Answer 12

Conjunctiva

Question 13

What is the process that adjusts the lens for near vision?

Answer 13

Accommodation

Question 14

What is the colored part of the eye called?

Answer 14

Iris

Question 15

A combination of reception by three kinds of cones results in ______

Answer 15

Color vision

Question 16

What canals are involved in equilibrium?

Answer 16

Maculae and semicircular canals

Question 17

What organ converts sound waves into vibrations?

Answer 17

The organ of corti

Question 18

Conduction deafness is caused by what?

Answer 18

Fusion of the bones of the middle ear

Question 19

Tinnitus is what?

Answer 19

A constant ringing in the ears

Question 20

What tube helps equalize air pressure on the tympanic membrane

Answer 20

The Eustachian tube

Question 21

What does blood carry?

Answer 21

Carbon dioxide
Waste
Oxygen
Hormones

Question 22

What are some functions of blood

Answer 22

Transportation
Regulation
protection

Question 23

What percent of blood is plasma?

Answer 23

55%

Question 24

What percent of plasma is water?

Answer 24

90%

Question 25

What is the process of ingesting and destroying bacterial cells

Answer 25

Phagocytosis

Question 26

What cell is not classified as a white blood cell?

Answer 26

A reticulocyte

Question 27

How many red blood cells are in on uL of blood?

Answer 27

5 million

Question 28

What type of blood is recessive

Answer 28

Type O

Question 29

If your blood agglutinates in anti-A serum and not Anti-B you have what blood type?

Answer 29

Type A blood

Question 30

If your blood does not agglutinate in either serum you what what blood type?

Answer 30

Type O

Question 31

What blood type is the unerversual recipient

Answer 31

Type O

Question 32

What determines blood type?

Answer 32

Antigen protein on the surface of the red blood cell

Question 33

If you have type B blood you do not have these antibodies

Answer 33

Anti b antibodies

Question 34

The heart muscle is supplied by what?

Answer 34

Coronary circulation

Question 35

The cardiac muscle is known as what

Answer 35

Myocardium

Question 36

What has the thickest wall

Answer 36

The left ventricle

Question 37

What monitors and regulates the heart rate?

Answer 37

The medulla

Question 38

The heart rate speeds up when we stand up quickly due to what?

Answer 38

Due to receptors that detect blood pressure changes located in the carotid artery?

Question 39

When listening to the heart what do you hear?

Answer 39

The valves

Question 40

Heart murmurs are sounds caused by what?

Answer 40

Improperly closing valves

Question 41

What does the purkinje principal say?

Answer 41

That a heart stretched just before contraction will contract stronger

Question 42

What is the capillaries main function?

Answer 42

To exchange nutrients and gases between the blood and tissue

Question 43

What circulation system carries blood rich substances absorbed from the gastro intestinal tract?

Answer 43

The hepatic circulation

Question 44

What prevents backflow?

Answer 44

Valves

Question 45

What is the most important function of the circulatory system?

Answer 45

Fighting disease

Question 46

Venus blood is returned to the blood by what?

Answer 46

Breathing movements and skeletal muscular contractions

Question 47

What is the force in which blood pushes against atrial walls during ventricular contractions

Answer 47

Systolic blood pressure

Question 48

Lymphatic vessels most resembles what?

Answer 48

Veins

Question 49

In an overweight person, what would be most responsible for increasing vascular resistance

Answer 49

Vessel length

Question 50

Antigens provoke what in the body?

Answer 50

An immune response

Question 51

What destroys worn out red blood cells?

Answer 51

The spleen

Question 52

All lymph in the body is returned to where?

Answer 52

The subclavian vein

Question 53

Lymph nodes do what?

Answer 53

Filter lymph and store lymphocytes

Question 54

What are some functions of CSF?

Answer 54

Serves as a shock absorber for the brain and spinal cord Contains white blood cells Contains nutrients