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Nervous System
Nervous System Vocabulary
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Physiology
Undergraduate 1
06/02/2008

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How much the average brain weigh?
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3 pounds
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The largest part of the brain is?
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Cerebrum
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Cerebrum consists of what fraction of the brain weigh?

Definition
7/8
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The Peripheral Consists
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Autonomic Nervous System & Somatic Nervous System
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The Autonomic Nervous System consists of?
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Symphathetic & Parasymphathetic
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The frontal lobes control what?
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reasoning, emotions, judgement and voluntary movement
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tempral lobes contains

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centers of hearing & memory
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Occiptal lobes contains
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the centers of vision and reading ability

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Parietal lobes control
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important sensory centers
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what does the cerebellum do
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it regulates balance, posture, movement, and coordination
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describe The pituitary gland and what it does
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it is attached to the base of brain and it secrets hormones
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pons do what?
Definition
relay station
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Corpus callosum
Definition
it looks like a c on its side
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describe the spinal cord
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thick bundle of nerve fibers that runs from the base of brain to the hip area, running through the spine
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what does the medulla oblongata do
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controls automatic funtions heartbeat, breathing, swallowing, sneezing, and reflex.
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main portion of neuron is

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cell body and nucleos
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dendrites
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fibers to conducts to the body impulses

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axons
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conducts impulses away from a cell body
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bundles of axons
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nerds

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mylen sheath
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insulating valvalator that speed transmissions. keep things organized.
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what are nodes and what do they do
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small space in the myelin and they speed up impulses
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axon terminal
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end of axon and transmit information to other neurons, muscle, or glands
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transmit the electricalchemical to the synapse
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axon terminal
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neurons cannot grow back: true or flase
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true
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