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9 Cards in this Set
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Reflexes
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immediate responses, which come involuntarily, often not mediated by the higher center of the brain
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flexion reflex
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withdrawal from noxious stimuli
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stretch reflex
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includes knee jerk and those responses concerned with posture amd muscle tone maintenance
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scratch reflex
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involves responses to local stimulation
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dorsal root
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this is where impulses that cause simple spinal reflex enter the spinal cord
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interneurons
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electric signals synapse with this once impulses are in the spinal cord
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interneurons
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transmit impulses to motor neurons and into effector organs
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reflex arc
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simple neural pathway
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Narrate the reflex arc.
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