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12th Grade
10/29/2008

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Medulla oblogata contains three what?
Definition
Respiratory center, Cardiac center, Vasomotor center
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meninges
Definition
3 layers of connective tissue membranes that surround brain/spinal cord
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sensory nerves ...
Definition
carry messages toward the brain
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motor nerves...
Definition
carry messages f/ the brain
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neuron
Definition
1 cell
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ganglia ...
Definition
small clusters of nerve cell bodies
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glia cells
Definition
maintain health of nervous system, don't transmit impulses
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astrocytes ...
Definition
star shaped cells transporting water and salt in capillaries and neurons
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microglial cells
Definition
small cells w/ many branching processes
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oligodendrogilial cells ...
Definition
make up the myelin sheath
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ependymal cells
Definition
line membranes w/in the brain and spinal cord where cerebrospinal fluid circulates
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cerebrum
Definition
largest section of brain, surface has nerve cells called cerebral cortex which manages speech, vision, smell, movement, hearing and thought
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cerebellum
Definition
coordinates voluntary movements and maintains balance
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thalamus
Definition
integrates and monitors impulses f/ skin (pain)
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vacus nerve
Definition
is the only nerve that branches out of the chest and abdomen
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hypothamus
Definition
controls body temp, sleep, apothetic, sex, and emotion , monitors sympathetic and parosympathetic nervous systems
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pituatary
Definition
produces hormones
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brain stem ...pon
Definition
bridges cerebrum and celebellum w/ rest of the brain, houses nerves for face and eyes,
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medulaa oblogata
Definition
controls blood pressure, try's to bring down controls respiratory system controls blood vessels, dialects and constricts also nerve tracts f/ side to side to side
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spinal cord
Definition
collum of nerve tissue start at medulla oblogatum, to the 2nd lumber vertebrae ... serves as a pathway to and f/ brain
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efferent
Definition
carryes impulses f/ spinal cord, such as skeleton muscles
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meninges
Definition
are there 3 layers of connective tissues surrounded by brain and spinal cord
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gyrus
Definition
sheet of nerve cells that produces a rounded fold on the surface of the cerebellum
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pia mater
Definition
the thin, delicate inner membrane of the meninges
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analgesia
Definition
means nerve pain
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epidural
Definition
occurs between the skull and the dura as a result of a ruptured meningeal artery, usually after a fracture of the skull
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hydrocephalus
Definition
abnoral accumalation of fluid in brain (csf)
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spina bifida
Definition
congential defects in the lumbar spinal celum caused by imperfect uion of vertebral parts
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spina bifida cystica
Definition
more severe form, w/ neural tube defect cyst like protrusions
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spina bifida occulta
Definition
the vertebral defect is covered over w/ skin and evident only on x-ray or other imagiry examination
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cerebral concussion
Definition
temporary brain dysfunction after injury, clear in 24 hrs.
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cerebral contusion
Definition
brusing of brain tissue through direct trauma to head , neurological deficits persist longer than 24 hour
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thrambatic
Definition
blood clot in artery leaving to the brain
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embaloic
Definition
dislodged clot that travels to cerebral arteries
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hemorrhagic
Definition
a blood vessal, such as the cerebral artery breaks, and bleeding occurs
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x ray tests
Definition
cerebral argiogrraphy , computered tomography (ct), myelography...
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