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| 4941783270 | adapting receptor | is a decrease in sensitivities during a constant stimulus | 0 | |
| 4941793796 | arachnoid villi | fingerlike projections of the arachnoid mater through which CSF returns to the venous blood supply | 1 | |
| 4941798203 | autonomic reflexes | reflexes not consciously perceived and involving responses of smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, and glands. | 2 | |
| 4941815572 | blood brain barrier | The brain is protected from harmful chemicals in the blood stream by thicker walls surrounding the brains blood vessels. | 3 | |
| 4941817717 | brain stem | part of brain consists of medulla oblongata, pons, and midbrain | 4 | |
| 4941832720 | circadian rhythm | the daily biological rhythms that occur in a 24-hour period | 5 | |
| 4941836339 | cold receptors | located in the stratum basale and activated by low temperatures | 6 | |
| 4941855248 | cones | Cone-shaped visual receptor cells; located in retina; works best in bright light; responsible for viewing color; greatest density in the fovea | 7 | |
| 4941859466 | rods | are photoreceptors that are stimulated even low light and allow night or dim vision | 8 | |
| 4941879423 | corpus callosum | The large band of neural fibers connecting the two brain hemispheres and carrying messages between them. | 9 | |
| 4941882171 | corpuscles of tough | tactile corpuscles (or Meissner's corpuscles) are a type of mechanoreceptor. They are a type of nerve ending in the skin that is responsible for sensitivity to light touch | 10 | |
| 4941897748 | CSF | cerebrospinal fluid | 11 | |
| 4941900835 | diencephalon | consists of thalamus, hypothalamus, and pineal gland | 12 | |
| 4941916702 | dura mater | thick, outermost layer of the meninges surrounding and protecting the brain and spinal cord | 13 | |
| 4941922943 | eustachian tube | A narrow tube between the middle ear and the throat that serves to equalize pressure on both sides of the eardrum | 14 | |
| 4941928780 | extrinsic eye muscle | Skeletal muscles that attach to the outside of the eyeball and to the bones of the orbit, include the superior, inferior, medial and laterial rectus muscles and superior and inferior oblique muscles | 15 | |
| 4941934138 | first order neuron | conducts the nerve impulse from the receptor to the spinal cord or brain stem | 16 | |
| 4941943079 | gustatory cells | taste buds; cells receptors bind molecules dissolved in saliva; interpreted as taste | 17 | |
| 4941943080 | hypothalamus controlled | thirst, hunger, temperature, and emotional behavior | 18 | |
| 4941959047 | interneurons | Central nervous system neurons that internally communicate and intervene between the sensory inputs and motor outputs | 19 | |
| 4941966703 | interoceptors | Located in blood vessels, visceral organs, and nervous system; provide information about internal environment; impulses usually are not consciously perceived but occasionally may be felt as pain or pressure | 20 | |
| 4941978019 | intraocular pressure | a measurement of the fluid pressure inside the eye | 21 | |
| 4941981444 | iris | A ring of muscle tissue that forms the colored portion of the eye around the pupil and controls the size of the pupil opening. | 22 | |
| 4941985049 | kinesthetic receptors | Receptors located in the muscles, joints, and skin that provide information about movement, posture, and orientation. | 23 | |
| 4941991829 | major components of brain | cerebrum, diencephalon, brain stem, cerebellum | 24 | |
| 4942011558 | muscle spindles | Muscle spindles are sensory receptors within the belly of a muscle that primarily detect changes in the length of this muscle. They convey length information to the central nervous system via sensory neurons | 25 | |
| 4942026445 | nociceptor | Pain receptors. Nociceptors are found everywhere in the body except for the brain. | 26 | |
| 4942034654 | olfactory receptors | nerve endings that act as the receptors for the sense of smell. Activated olfactory receptors are the initial player in a signal transduction cascade which ultimately produces a nerve impulse which is transmitted to the brain | 27 | |
| 4942057312 | pairs of cranial nerves and spinal nerves | 12 pairs of cranial, 31 pairs of spinal | 28 | |
| 4942059871 | perceptions | awareness of objects through any of the five senses | 29 | |
| 4942065910 | post central gyri | Gyri in parietal lobe. posterior to central gyrus, contains primarysomatosensory cortex. |  | 30 |
| 4942094271 | primary motor area | controls voluntary contraction of muscles. located in the precentral gyrus of each frontal lobe | 31 | |
| 4942107643 | proprioception | The cumulative sensory input to the central nervous system from all mechanoreceptors that sense body position and limb movement. | 32 | |
| 4942119577 | regulation of ANS | The hypothalamus, acts as an integrator for autonomic functions, receiving ANS regulatory input from the limbic system to do so. The autonomic nervous system has two branches: the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system | 33 | |
| 4942131646 | sclera | White of the eye | 34 | |
| 4942137874 | Which of the following types of neurons conduct sensory impulses from the brain stem and spinal cord to the thalamus? | second order neuron | 35 | |
| 4942151873 | sensation process | Stimulation of the sensory receptor, transduction of the stimulus, generation of nerve impulses, and integration of sensory input. | 36 | |
| 4942164759 | How many sensory modalities can a single sensory neuron have? | one | 37 | |
| 4942235054 | The part of the cochlea that converts pressure waves (from sounds) into changes in membrane potentials is the: | spiral organ | 38 | |
| 4942244752 | Which of the following types of neurons conduct impulses from the thalamus to the primary somatosensory area of the cerebral cortex? | third order neuron | 39 | |
| 4942254555 | trigeminal nerve | 5th cranial nerve - the chief nerve of sensation for the face and the motor nerve controlling the muscles for chewing. 3 divisions - ophthalmic, maxillary, and mandibular. | 40 | |
| 4942272112 | tympanic membrane | The eardrum. A structure that separates the outer ear from the middle ear and vibrates in response to sound waves. | 41 | |
| 4942274782 | the mixed cranial nerve that is distributed from the head and neck into the thorax and abdomen and is the only cranial nerve that extends beyond the head and neck region would describe | vagus nerve | 42 | |
| 4942315718 | activation energy | Energy needed to get a reaction started | 43 | |
| 4942317255 | arrector pili | a smooth muscle attached to hair follicles that causes "goose bumps" to appear on the skin when contracted | 44 | |
| 4942322076 | basic life processes | Metabolism, Responsiveness, Movement, Growth, Differentiation, and Reproduction | 45 | |
| 4942344949 | cell junctions | Cell junctions consist of multiprotein complexes that provide contact between neighboring cells or between a cell and the extracellular matrix. | 46 | |
| 4942357718 | connective tissue charisteristic | Connective tissue has three main components: cells, fibers, and ground substance. Together the ground substance and fibers make up the extracellular matrix | 47 | |
| 4942366539 | contraction cycle | Atp Hydrolysis, Cross bridge, Power stroke, detachment of myosin from actin | 48 | |
| 4942379869 | endergonic | accompanied by or requiring the absorption of energy, the products being of greater free energy than the reactants | 49 | |
| 4942394351 | flexion | Bending of a joint | 50 | |
| 4942410651 | insertion | The attachment of a muscle tendon to a moveable bone or the end opposite the origin | 51 | |
| 4942414889 | keratinocytes | an epidermal cell that produces keratin | 52 | |
| 4942424557 | layers of epidermis | Stratum corneum, lucidum, granulosum, spinosum, basalis | 53 | |
| 4942428202 | metabolism | Chemical reactions in living organisms that are necessary to maintain life | 54 | |
| 4942439442 | myofibril | skeletal muscle fiber | 55 | |
| 4942445649 | myosin head | part of thick filament that binds to the actin on thin filaments and then pulls the thin filament back to contract it and releases it to relax | 56 | |
| 4942452694 | nervous tissue characteristics | Neurons are highly specialized nerve cells that generate and conduct nerve impulses. A typical neuron consists of dendrites, the cell body, and an axon | 57 | |
| 4942465692 | number of bones in the wrist | eight carpal bones—scaphoid, lunate, triquetral, pisiform, trapezium, trapezoid, capitate, and hamate— and five metacarpal bones—the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth metacarpal bones. | 58 | |
| 4942593976 | origin | The attachment of a muscle tendon to a stationary bone or the end opposite the insertion | 59 | |
| 4942607191 | osteogenic cell | undergo cell division and develop into osteoblasts | 60 | |
| 4942614558 | pelvic girdle function | Support weight, protect organs, muscle attachments, passes forces through hips | 61 | |
| 4942618379 | polar covalent bond | A covalent bond in which electrons are not shared equally | 62 | |
| 4942620857 | properties of muscle | contractility, excitability, extensibility, elasticity | 63 | |
| 4942623729 | relative refractory period nervous system functions | a period after firing when a neuron is returning to its normal polarize state and will only fire again if the incoming message open impulse is stronger than usual; returning to arresting state | 64 | |
| 4942632824 | S phase | S-phase (synthesis phase) is the part of the cell cycle in which DNA is replicated, occurring between G1 phase and G2 phase | 65 | |
| 4942641969 | salt | a salt is an ionic compound that results from the neutralization reaction of an acid and a base | 66 | |
| 4942656201 | salutatory conduction | is the propagation of action potentials along myelinated axons from one node of Ranvier to the next node, increasing the conduction velocity of action potentials | 67 | |
| 4942665292 | serous membrane | "parietal serosa" (lines the cavity walls) and "visceral serosa" (covers organs in the cavity). | 68 | |
| 4942695670 | synaptic cleft | A microscopic gap called a synaptic cleft exists between the neurons. When a nerve impulse arrives at the axon terminal of one neuron, a chemical substance is released through the presynaptic membrane |  | 69 |
| 4942721782 | What part of the skeletal muscle cell releases calcium when stimulated by the T tubules? | terminal cisterns if SR | 70 | |
| 4942743005 | Calcium ions bind to the ________ molecule in skeletal muscle cells. | troponin | 71 | |
| 4942759996 | types of synovial joints | plane, hinge, pivot, ball-and-socket (condyloid and saddle) | 72 | |
| 4942848110 | vertebral column | starting at the neck: cervical vertebrae (7), thoracic or dorsal (12), lumbar (5), sacral (5,fused), coccyx or tailbone (4) | 73 | |
| 4942852391 | yellow marrow | fat storage | 74 |
