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Unit 2
Chapter 7
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Anatomy
Undergraduate 3
02/10/2008

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Term
Receptors
Definition
Cells specialized for the reception of sensations
Term
Effectors
Definition

Cells that make the appropriate response to sensation.

 

(Muscles or glands) 

Term
Enteric Plexus
Definition
The nerve supply to our gut tube and responsible for peristalsis.
Term
Paired Nerves
Definition
Run outward from the brain and spinal cord.
Term
Ganglia
Definition
Clusters of nerve cell bodies which are found in specific regions.
Term
Composition of Central Nervous System
Definition

Brain and Spinal Cord.

 

Composed of white and gray matter 

Term
Composition of the Peripheral Nervous System
Definition

Paired Nerves and Ganglia.

 

Cranial Nerves and their Gangliai - related to the head and gills and the gut tube.

 

Spinal Nerves and their Ganglia - related to the trunk, limbs, and to a few specific regions of the head and neck.  Sympathetic chain and related structures. 

Term
White Matter
Definition
Myelinated axons (which appear white) running from one region to another region
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Gray Matter
Definition
Clusters of nerve cell bodies; since nerve cell bodies are never myelinated this region appears to be gray.
Term
Components of Spinal Cord
Definition

White matter on the outside, gray matter on the inside.

 

White matter represents pathways running up the cord carrying sensory information to the brain from the regions of the body or pathways running down the cord carrying motor information from the brain to the effector organs of teh body.

 

Upper regions of the cord have more white matter than lower regions.

 

Amount of gray matter at a specific level of the cord is determined by the muscle mass that is innervated by that level of hte cord.  (It's massive in the parts of the cord related to the extremities. 

Term
Brachial Enlargement
Definition
The "thicker" region of teh cord related to teh upper extremities
Term
Lumbosacral Enlargement
Definition
The "thicker" region related to the lower external.
Term
Spinal Nerve Names
Definition

Spinal nerves are named for the region of the trunk in which they are found.

 

 

They are numbered according to the vertebrae that they emerge above (cervical) or belowe (thoracic, lumbar,and sacral)

 

Thus there is a "gap" in this method of nomenclature between the sevent cervical vertebrae (C.V.7) and the first thoracic vertebrae (T.V.1)  This gap is arbitrarily dismissed by naming the nerve in the region of the eighth cervical spinal nerve C8. (Thus, C8 is a rule/generalization breaker.)

Term
Chordates and all vertebrates are the only animals to be characterized by what....
Definition

1. Dorsal Hollow Nerve Tube

2. A Notochord 

3. A Postanal tail

4. Gill slits

 

 The direction of blood flow is also somewhat unique; the heart is a ventral structure and blood passes anteriorly in ventral vessels and posteriorly in dorsal vessels.

Term
Somite
Definition
Paired blocks of tissue that develop into bone, muscle, and dermis.
Term
Somatic Region
Definition
The somatic portion of the animal is the active, voluntary portion that is related to, or derived from somites.
Term
Visceral Region
Definition
The visceral portion of the animal is the gut tube (viscera) of the animal.
Term

Blood Vessels

(Visceral or Somatic) 

Definition
Blood vessels are visceral structures and they are in the outer body wall.
Term
Primary Segmentation
Definition
Structures that develop from them are primarily segmented
Term
Secondary Segmentation
Definition
Any segmentation that is imposed on structures that are not innately segmented
Term
Hindbrain
Definition
Divisible into rhombomeres that show a visible structural segmentation
Term
Forebrain and Midbrain
Definition
Have a segmentation at the molecular and genit level (Prosomeres).
Term
Dorsal Root
Definition
Purely sensory in function
Term
Ventral Root
Definition
Purely motor in function
Term
Dorsal Root Ganglion
Definition
The location of the cell bodies of the sensory neurons in the dorsal root.
Term
Ganglion
Definition
A cluster of nerve cell bodies in the PNS.
Term
Nucleus
Definition
Cluster of nerve cell bodies in the CNS.
Term
Autonomic System
Definition
The visceral motor system of the body that is composed of sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions, and is unique in that it is a two-neuron pathway with the cell body of one neuron in the CNS (the preganglionic neuron) and the cell body of the second neuron in a ganglion in the periphery (the postganglionic neuron).
Term
Mixed Nerve
Definition
Gets divided into a dorsal ramus and a ventral rami
Term
Dorsal Ramus
Definition
Goes only to true-back muscles and the skin over these true back muscles.
Term
Ventral Ramus
Definition
Each goes to the "other" musculature and related skin of the limbs and trunk.
Term
Segmented Spinal Nerves
Definition

Thoracic spinal nerves.

Not involved with the braiding of plexuses.

Show the segmentation of the body for most of their length. 

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