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Stacy Gutierez
Physiology Week 7-13
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A term commonly used as a synonym for action potential is: | Nerve impulse |
| Excitatory neurotransmitters are most likely to : | Initiate an action potential |
| Mixed cranial nerves contain axons of | Sensory and motor neurons |
| The effect of sympathetic stimulation on the urinary bladder is | Relaxation |
| Another name for the parasympathetic nervous system is the _____ nervous | Craniosacral |
| The production of thyroid hormones is stimulated by another hormone from the : | Anterior pituitary |
| Movement of hair cells in the organ of Corti against the ____ membrane can stimulate nerve impulse condition | Tectorial |
| If you slammed your finger in a car door, it would stimulate ____ pain fibers. | Acute |
| When a small of one hormone allows a second hormone to have its full effect, the phenomenon is called: | Permissiveness |
| The olfactory tract carries impulses associated with: | Smell |
| The major hormone produced by the corpus luteum is : | Progesterone |
| If damaged, what valve could allow blood to leak back into the right atrium? | Tricuspid |
| Erythrocytes begin their maturation sequence in red bone marrow from nucleated cells knows as : | Hematopoietic stem cells |
| A hematocrit of 56% would be an indication of : | Polycythemia |
| The term blood type refers to the type of blood cell | Antigen |
| The function of which antibody is basically unknown? | IgD |
| What become plasma cells when exposed to an antigen? | Memory cells |
| Pyrogen molecules trigger the fever response by promoting the production of : | Prostaglandins |