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51 Cards in this Set
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detect changes that occur inside and outside the body and convey them to the brain
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Afferent Receptors
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The nervous system responds by sending motor, or ______ , signals from the brain to muscles and glands to cause and effect.
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Efferent Receptors
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part of the nervous system that is under conscious or voluntary control
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Somatic Nervous System
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Relates to involuntary or automatic body functions
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Automatic Nervous System
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transmit impulses to the cell body
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dendrites
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carries impulses away from the cell body
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axons
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Supporting tissue cells of the nervous system
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Neuroglia or Gila
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aut/o
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self
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cerebell/o
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cerebellum
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cerebr/o, encephal/o
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brain
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cervic/o
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cervix or neck
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coccyg/o
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coccyx (tailbone)
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crani/o
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cranium
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dendr/o
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tree
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dur/o
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dura mater
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gli/o
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neuroglia
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Kerat/o
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cornea; hard or horny
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lumb/o
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lower back
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mening/o
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meninges
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ment/o, psych/o
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mind
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myel/o
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bone marrow or spinal cord
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nerv/o, neur/o
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nerve
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phren/o
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mind or diaphragm
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physi/o
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nature
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retin/o
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retina
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sacr/o
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sacrum
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spin/o
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spine
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thorac/o
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thorax
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vascul/o
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vessel
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agora-
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open marketplace
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-asthenia
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weakness
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-esthesia
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sensation or perception
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-lexia
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words, phrases
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-orexia
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appetite
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ITS THE BRAINNNNNN :)
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esthesi/o
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feeling or sensation
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-phagia
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eating
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-phasia
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speech
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-lexia
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words
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-plegia
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paralysis
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-opia
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vision
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chronic disease of the inner ear characterized by reoccurring episodes of dizziness
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Meniere Disease
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Abnormal Condition of increased pressure within the eye
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Glaucoma
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Nearsighteness
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Myopia
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Acute, infectious eruption of vesicles
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shingles
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subjective ringing of one or both ears
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Tinnitus
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-rrhage
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excessive bleeding
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passages that are used to redirect cerebrospinal fluid from one area to another
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Shunts
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Neurorrhaphy
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suturing of a cut nerve
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agent that relieves pain without causing loss of consciousness
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Analgesics
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drugs often used as sedatives to produce a calming effect
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Hypnotics
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