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physiology last half
Nightingale Online final
Question | Answer |
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ion channels that open in response to chemicals produced by a sensory stimulus or by a chemical stimulus received from another neuron. | Stimulus-gated channels |
Conduct sensory impulses up the cord to the brain | Ascending Tracts |
What is a local potential? | A slight shift away from the resting potential on a region of the cell's plasma membrane |
The term used to describe the collection of mechanisms that influence the circulation of blood? | Hemodynamics |
receptors located internally often within the substance of body organs. | visceroceptors |
The heart starts beating in a fetus in what stage of development? | At about 4 weeks |
The term blood type referes to the type of blood cell? | Antigen |
The term used to describe the collection of mechanisms that influence the circulation of blood? | Hemodynamics |
Which autonomic nervous system division is responsible for the fight-or-flight response? | Sympathetic |
Where is blood filtered to form the cerebrospinal fluid? | choroid plexus |
____ is the part of the brain that assists in balance | cerebellum |
Conducts sensory impulses down the cord away from the brain | Descending tracts |
make it possible for the body to respond to stimuli changes occurring in both our internal and external environment | Sensory Recepotors |
difference in electric potential between the interior and the exterior of a biological cell. | Membrane Potential |
Located in skeletal muscles, joint capsules and tendons. | Proprioceptors |
Lymphocytes that kill many types of tumor cells and cells infected by different kinds of viruses are known as | natural killer cells. |
Antibodies are proteins of the family called | immunoglobulins. |