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15 Cards in this Set
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Brainstem |
Contains many autonomic centers and reflex centers required for survival |
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Cerebellum |
Function: fine motor/ muscle control |
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Spinal cord & spinal nerves |
cervical, thoracic, lumbar, & sacral |
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Spinal nerves |
Mixed, Posterior root, & Anterior root |
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Mixed |
both sensory and motor axons |
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Posterior root |
sensory |
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Anterior root |
motor |
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Somatic sensory receptors |
located in the body wall, mainly skin ( pain, temperature, touch, proprioception) |
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visceral sensory receptors |
located in the walls of internal organs |
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Special senses |
located in the head ( taste, smell, vision, equilibrium, hearing) cranial nerves |
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Smell |
olfactory epithelium in nasal cavity / chemoreceptor CN I |
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Vision |
retina innermost layer of eyeball/ photoreceptor (rods & cones) CN II |
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Taste |
CN 7 & CN 9 |
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Hearing |
cochlear branch of CN 8/ located in temporal bone |
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Balance / equilibrium |
vestibular branch CN 8 |
