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endocrine system - correct answer✔✔Glands secrete hormones that regulate processes such
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as growth, reproduction, and nutrient use (metabolism) by body cells.
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central sulcus - correct answer✔✔separates frontal and parietal lobes
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lateral sulcus - correct answer✔✔separates the parietal and temporal lobes
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Cerebrum - correct answer✔✔Portion of brain divided into a right and left hemisphere by the
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corpus collasum |||\\\




Schwann cells - correct answer✔✔Myelinated axons and dendrites for the PNS-can be
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surgically repaired |||\\\




Interneurons - correct answer✔✔CNS- memory, thinking, and learning/ connects sensory and
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motor nerves
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Cerebellum - correct answer✔✔Muscle coordination and tone |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\




Insulin - correct answer✔✔Hyperglycemia
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Glucagon - correct answer✔✔Hypoglycemia |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\




Cortisol - correct answer✔✔adrenal cortex- burns fat and protein for energy/
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immunosuppressant/ anti inflammatory |||\\\ |||\\\

,afferent - correct answer✔✔PNS and CNS
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efferent - correct answer✔✔CNS to PNS
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Cranial Nerve 1 - correct answer✔✔Olfactory (smell)
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Cranial Nerve VII - correct answer✔✔Facial - controls most facial expressions & secretion of
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tears & saliva & taste
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Cranial Nerve XI: Accessory - correct answer✔✔shoulder movement and head rotation
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Cranial Nerve X: Vagus - correct answer✔✔Sensory from visceral organs (Heart, Lungs,
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Digestive system) and smooth muscle contraction.
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Cranial Nerve XII: Hypoglossal - correct answer✔✔-Function: motor/sensory fibers to/from
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tongue. Movement of tongue
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-Testing procedure: ask person to stick out tongue, positional abnormalities are noted
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Cranial Nerve 2 - correct answer✔✔Optic - vision
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Cranial Nerve 3 - correct answer✔✔Oculomotor (eye movement)
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Cranial Nerve 4 - correct answer✔✔Trochlear (eye movement)
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Cranial Nerve 5 - correct answer✔✔Trigeminal
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, Cranial Nerve 6 - correct answer✔✔Abducens (motor)|||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\




Cranial Nerve 7 - correct answer✔✔Facial |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\




Cranial Nerve 8 - correct answer✔✔Vestibulocochlear
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Cranial Nerve 9 - correct answer✔✔Glossopharyngeal|||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\




ascending tracts - correct answer✔✔carry sensory information to the brain |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\




descending tracts - correct answer✔✔carry motor commands to spinal cord |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\




Spinal Cord Structure and Function - correct answer✔✔• The spinal cord is a continuation of
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the brain stem through the vertebral column providing a two way path of communication
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between the brain and rest of the body. It also is a reflex center (integrator)
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◦ Contains gray matter shaped like "butterfly" or "H" in the middle surround central spinal canal
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while white matter surrounds this
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◦ Gray matter mostly cell body, white matter myelin from tracts
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• Two bulges in the spinal cord, one in the cervical and one in the lumbar region
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31 pairs of spinal nerves - correct answer✔✔8 cervical
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12 thoracic |||\\\




5 lumbar |||\\\




5 sacral |||\\\




1 coccygeal |||\\\

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