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Adriana Carrasco
Anatomy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the muscles of the abdominal wall? | External oblique, internal oblique, transversus abdominis, rectus abdominis |
| What are the two divisions of the autonomic nervous system and what do they contol? | Sympathetic division: "fight-or-flight" Parasympathetic division: "rest-and-repair" |
| What is the peripheral nervous system? | Nerve tissues in outer regions. Afferent: incoming sensory info pathways. Efferent: outgoing motor info pathways. |
| What is the central nervous system? | structural/functional center of entire nervous system, brain & spinal cord |
| What are the endocrine glands? | Hypothalamus, pituitary, thyroid, pineal, thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal glands, gonads, pancreas, thymus |
| What is the hypothalamus? | control center, makes ADH & oxytocin |
| What is a nociceptor? | nerve fibers that carry pain impulses to the brain |
| What is a baroreceptor? | info in nerves that tell the brain how much stretch there is in the blood vessels |
| What are the four chambers of the heart? | Right atrium, left atrium, right ventricle, left ventricle |
| What is lymph? | leftover blood plasma that seeped through capillaries and must be cycled and returned to the blood. |