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show monitors all information about change occuring outside and inside the body process and interprets the information recieved and integrates it in order to make decisions, commond responses by activating muscle gland and other parts of the nervous system  
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show central nervous system  
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show somatic nervous system  
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show periphereal nervous system  
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subdivision of the PNS that regulates the activity of the heart and smooth muscle, and of glands: it is also called the involuntary nervous system   show
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major subdivision of the nervous system that interprets incoming information and issues orders such as past experience and current conditions   show
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major subdivision of the nervous system that serves as communication lines, linking all parts of the body to the cns.   show
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supports, insulate, and protect cells   show
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demonstrates irritability and conductivity, and thus transmit electrical messages from one area of the body to another area   show
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show neurons  
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show neuroglia  
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releases neurotransmitters   show
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show dendrite  
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show dendrite  
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show cell body  
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show axon  
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walking on hot pavement which receptor type would be activated   show
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feeling a pinch would activate which receptor   show
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show pacinian corpuscle  
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muscle sensations when rowing a boat activates which receptor   show
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feeling a caress activates which receptor   show
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show cutaneous sense organs  
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specialized cells that myelinate the fibers of neurons found in the PNS   show
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show synapse  
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bundle of nerve processes inside the CNS   show
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show association neuron  
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show nodes of ranvier  
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show ganglion  
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show efferent neuron  
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sensorty receptors found in muscle and tendons that detect their degree of stretch   show
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show stimuli  
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neuron that conducts impulses toward the CNS from the body periphery   show
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chemicals released by neurons that stimulate other neurons, muscles, or glands   show
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show stimulus,receptor,afferent neuron,efferent neuron, effector organ  
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period of repolarization of the neuron during which it cannot respond to a second stimulus   show
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state in which the resting potential is reversed as sodium ions rush into the neuron   show
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show polarized  
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period during which potassium ions diffuse out of the neuron   show
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show action potential  
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the cheif positive intracellular ion in a resting neuron   show
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process by which ATP is used to move sodium ions out of the cell and potassium ions back into the cell, completely restores the resting conditions of the neurons   show
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somatic reflexes   show
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autonomic reflexes   show
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what system along with the nervous system helps to regulate and maintain body homeostasis, it produces hormones that are released into the blood.   show
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show spinal nerves  
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show cranial nerves  
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show sensory division  
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show brAIN AND SPINAL CORD  
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show spinal and cranial nerves that extend to and from the CNS  
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cells found in the cns that generally support, insulate, and protect the delicate neurons   show
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show glia cells  
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show astrocytes  
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show astrocytes  
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show microglia  
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show ependymal cells  
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show oligodendrocytes  
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show gliomas  
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show schwann cells  
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show satellite cells  
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show glia cells can divide and neurons cannot. a criterion of cancer cells is their unconrolled division  
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which glial cells are most abudndent in the body   show
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show neurons or nerve cells  
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show cell body  
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what rough er substance and intermediate filaments that are mportant in maintaining cell schape and particulary abundent in the cell body   show
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show dendrites  
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show sxons  
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each neuron has only one axon, which arises from a conelike region of the cell body called   show
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all axons branch profusely at their terminal end, froming hundres to thousands of   show
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show neurotransmitters  
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axon terminals are separated from the next neuron by a tiny gap caled   show
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cleft protects and insulates the fibers and increases the transmission rate of nerve impules   show
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complete the pathway between afferent and efferent neurons, also called association neurons   show
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cell bodies that are found in the CNS in clusters are called   show
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small collections of cell bodies called ___ are found in the a few sites outside the cns in the pns   show
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show white matter  
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show gray matter  
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the cell bodies of ____are always found in a ganglion outside the cns, and keep us informed about what is happening both inside and outside the body   show
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how does a tract differ from a nerve   show
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show ganglion is a cluster of nerve cell bodies found in the pns, nucleus is a cluster of nerve cell bodies found in the pns  
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show dendrites conduct impulses toward the nerve cell body,  
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show axon terminal releases neurotransmitters  
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show reflex arcs  
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reflexes that stimulate the skeletal muscles   show
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reflexes that regulate the activity of smooth muscles   show
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reflexes that regulate such body functions as digestion, eliminationm, blood pressure, and sweating   show
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local current that dies out with distance   show
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show action potential  
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show reflex  
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central canal of the neural tube, which is continuous between the brain and spinal cod, becomes englarded in four regions of the brain to from chambers called   show
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brain weight   show
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show cerebral hemisphers, brainstem, and cerebellum  
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most superior part of the brain, responsible for the regulation of posture and coordination of skeletal muscle movements   show
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show gyri separated by shallow grooves called sulci (furrow)  
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regions of the human brain   show
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show neuron cell bodies  
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show myelinated fibers  
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show basal nuclei  
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show cerebrospinal fluid  
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show brainstem and cerebellum  
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show cerebral hemispheres  
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show cerebral cortex  
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body map on the motor cortex is called   show
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show occipital lobe  
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auditory are is located in which lobe   show
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show primary motor area  
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coritcal area that is very invloved in our ability to speak found at the base of the precentral gyrus   show
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areas involved in higher intellectual reasoning and socially acceptable behavior if found in which lobes   show
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show speech area (allows the sound to come out)  
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show cerebral  
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show gustatory area  
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site of regulation of body, temperature, water balance, metabolism, drives, and emotions   show
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show thalamus, hypothalamus, and epithalamus  
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important relay station for afferent fibers traveling to the senosry cortex for interpretation (whethe the sensation we are about to have is pleasant or unpleasant.   show
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show epithalamus  
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show choroid plexus  
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show midbrain, pons, and medulla oblongata,, small gray matter areas  
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show diencephalon  
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show myelinated nerve fibers  
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show brain stem  
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what is the function of the cerebellum   show
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the three connective tissue membranes covering and protecting the cns structures   show
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show dura matter  
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show ataxia  
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show meningitis  
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contains reflex centers incloved in regulating, respiratory rythm in conjunction with lower brain-stem centers   show
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responsible for the regulation of posture and coordination of skeletal muscle movements   show
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show thalamus  
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contains autonomic centers, which regulate blood pressure and repiratory rhythm, as well as coughing and sneezing centers   show
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show corupus callosum  
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show cerebral aqueaduct  
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show thalamus  
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show choroid plexus  
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show cerbral peduncle  
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part of the limbic system, contains centers for many drives such as rage, pleasure, hunger, sex)   show
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brain structures that consiste of white matter   show
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brain structures that consist of gray matter   show
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show postcentral gyrus  
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show temporal lobe  
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show frontal lobe  
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show broca's area  
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the right cerebral hemisphere receives sensory input from which side of the body   show
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major descending voluntary motor tract   show
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ceneters for control of repetitious or sterotyped motor skills are found in the   show
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the lips, tongue, and fingers are the largest part of what   show
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show general interpretation area  
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show occipital  
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show left  
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eed is eveidence of clinical death   show
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beta waves are recorded when an individual is awake and   show
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outermost covering of the brain, composed of tough fibrous connective tissue   show
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innermost coevering of the brain; delicate and vascular   show
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structures that return cerbospinal fluid to the venous blodd in the dural sinuses   show
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show dura mater  
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show choroid plexuses  
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cerbosipinal fluid flors from the lateral ventricles to the third ventricle and then trhough the   show
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some of the fluid continues down the central canal of the spinal cord, but most of it circulates into the subarachnoid space by passing through three tiny opening in the walls of the   show
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show hydrocephalus  
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slight and transient brain injury   show
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show contusion  
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total nonreponsiveness to stimulation   show
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show intracranial hemorrage  
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show cerebral edema  
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show cerebrovascual accident  
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show alzheimer's disease  
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show multiple sclerosis  
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show transient ishemic attack  
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the spinal cord extends from the formane magnum of the skill to what region of the vertebral column   show
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show lumbar tap  
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how many pairs of spinal nerses arise from the cord   show
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how many pairs of nerves are cervical nerves   show
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how many pairs of nerves are thoracic nerves   show
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show 5  
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how many pairs are sacral nerves   show
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what name is gibven to the barrier that protects the brain from toxic chemicals   show
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what name is given to the cerbrospinal fluid filled cavities within the brain   show
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another name for a bundle of nerve fibers is called   show
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show oculomotor III  
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