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- Towards the Head
- Superior
- Away from the midline
- Lateral
- Front
- Anterior
- Toward midline
- Medial
- Nearer point of attachment
- Proximal
- Nearer Surface
- Superficial
- Back
- Posterior/Dorsal
- Away From Head
- Inferior
- Farther from point of attachment
- Distal
- Farther from surface
- Deep
- Head, Neck, and Trunk
- Axial
- a crosswise or horizontal plane
- Transverse
- Chest Cavity
- Thoracic
- A plane running from front to back that divides the body into two halves
- Saggital
- Plane that divide body into upper and lower halves
- Transverse
- Movable joints
- articulations
- On the same side of the body
- Ipsilateral
- the belly button
- Umbilicus
- wall of body cavity
- parietal
- a steady state
- Homeostatis
- Between the lungs
- Mediasisum
- Wasting away of an organ
- atrophy
- Testes and ovaries
- gonad
- Membrane that covers body cavity
- peritoneum
- Dehydration
- excessive loss of body water
- Hypothermia
- low body temperature
- Subcutaneous
- beneath the skin
- albinism
- deficiency or complete absence of skin pigment
- Decubitus ulcer
- frequently reffered to as bedsore
- Carcinogenic
- cancer producing
- Vitiligo
- patches of depigmented skin
- carcinoma
- cancer of epithelial tissue
- metastasis
- spread of disease from one body regionor organ to another
- operates and controls digestive system
- Hypothalamus
- Relay system and gatekeeper for cerebrum
- thalamus
- covers the brain
- meninges
- coordinates voluntary muscles
- cerebellum
- maintains homeostatis of body
- hypothalamus
- controls activity of the pituitary gland
- hypothalamus
- Regulates vasoconstriction and blood pressure
- medulla oblongata
- measures carbondioxide levels of the blood
- medulla oblongata
- covers spinal cord
- meninges
- dicides how to respond to sensory data
- thalamus
- the conscious part of the brain
- cerebrum
- regulates breaathing
- medulla
- maintains muscle tone
- cerebellum
- Resting potential
- when a neuron is ready to conduct an impulse but not actually transmitting one
- Refactory period
- period when a neuron can not conduct an impulse
- interneurons
- carries impulse between afferent neurons
- can also be a motor neuron
- efferent neuron
- dendrite
- the end of a neuron that recives a signal
- Schwann Cell
- the cell that forms a covering on a peripheral nerve
- astrocytes
- form the blood brain barrier
- carries signals to the central nervous system
- afferent neuron
- is the phagocytic cell of the central nervous system
- microglia
- Myelin sheath
- the covering of the peripheral nerves
- carries impulse away from the central nervous system
- efferent neuron
- a neuron has only one of these
- axon
- this part can be a meter long
- axon
- the nucleus,Gogli, and mitochondria are found here
- cell body
- this end is usually extensivly branched
- axon
- carries impulse toward cell body
- afferent neuron
- carries impulse away from cell body
- efferent neuron
- when an impulse jumps between nodes of ranvier
- saltatory conduction
- special connective tissues of the nervous system
- neuroglia
- Nerve cells for impulse conduction
- neurons
- neuroglia cells that do phagocytosis
- microglia
- neuroglia that form part of the blood brain barrier
- astrocytes
- part of the neuron that contains the nucleus
- cell body
- part of the neuron that recives the stimuli
- dendrites
- part of the neuron that contains mitochondria
- cell body
- The fatty sheath produced by schwann cells
- myelin sheath
- a return to resting potential by a nerve
- repolarization
- are there more neurons or neurogla in the nervous system
- neuroglia
- what other system also functions for communication
- endocrine
- gap between dendrite and axon
- synaptic cleft
- the study of tissue is called
- histology
- the type of tissue that contains cells called neurons is
- nervous
- ________ is not a type of connective tissue
- nervous
- which type of cartilage is the most durable
- fibrocartilage
- this type of gland secretes through the membrane
- merocrine
- skeletal muscles constitute approximately____% of body weight
- 50
- Bundle of fine fibers that extend lengthwise along muscle fibers are called
- myofibrils
- the protein molecule that has heads jutting out for cross bridging is
- myosin
- skeletal muscles are innervated by
- somatic neurons
- which of the following muscle types is also called striated muscle
- skeletal