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Question 1: synergists
Answer:
muscles that may work in cooperation with the prime mover
Question 2: what does the nervous system make possible?
Answer:
body movements by skeletal muscles by supplying them with nerve impulses that cause contraction
Question 3: how many bones in the skull?
Answer:
28 14 facial & 14 cranial
Question 4: what does the nucleus contain within the cell?
Answer:
deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
Question 5: dendrite
Answer:
transmit impulses toward the cell body
Question 6: what muscles make up the muscular system?
Answer:
skeletal muscles -also known as voluntary muscles because they are under conscious control
Question 7: flexors
Answer:
reduce angle at the joint
Question 8: lateral
Answer:
away from the midline
Question 9: appendicular skeleton consists of?
Answer:
girdles & the limps (the appendages)
Question 10: nerve tissue composed....
Answer:
of neurons & connective tissue cells that are referred to as neuroglia
Question 11: functional units of the nervous system
Answer:
neurons
Question 12: eccrine
Answer:
most widely distributed gland & regulates body temperature by releasing sweat
Question 13: tissue
Answer:
group of cells that act together to perform a specific function
Question 14: what does the nervous system enable us to do?
Answer:
respond to changes in external & internal environments (see, hear, smell, taste, touch) enables us to think, reason, remember, & carry out other activities
Question 15: 3 major parts of the brain
Answer:
1: cerebrum
2: cerebellum
- medulla oblongata
Question 16: two layers of skin?
Answer:
epidermis & dermis
Question 17: extensors
Answer:
increase angle at the joint
Question 18: The 2 major body cavities
Answer:
dorsal and ventral
Question 19: medial
Answer:
toward the midline
Question 20: frontal (coronal) plane
Answer:
divides into ventral and dorsal sections (belly & back)
Question 21: transverse plane
Answer:
divides into superior and inferior parts horizontal cut
Question 22: cranial bones include?
Answer:
single occipital, frontal, ethmoid & sphenoid paired parietal, temporal, ossicles of the ear
Question 23: function of connective tissue
Answer:
it is the framework of the body; provides support and structure for the organs
Question 24: what are simple (spinal) reflexes?
Answer:
those in which nerve impulses travel through the spinal cord only and do not reach the brain
Question 25: axial skeleton consists of?
Answer:
skull vertebral column 12 pairs of ribs sternum (the body's axis)
Question 26: where is the dermis located?
Answer:
it rests on the subcutaneous tissue that connects the skin to the superficial muscles
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