ALHS1011: Structure and Function of the Human Body - Nervous System and Special Senses
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Vocabulary flashcards covering the nervous system divisions, types of neurons, and sensory structures of the eye and ear.
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Sympathetic Division
Controls the fight or flight response to stress of smooth muscle.
Parasympathetic Division
Controls the rest and regulatory functions of smooth muscle.
Autonomic Nervous System
Controls smooth muscle, cardiac muscle and glands.
Somatic Nervous System
Controls skeletal muscle.
Efferent Neurons
Sends motor messages to the muscles and glands.
Afferent Neurons
Sends sensory information to the brain and spinal cord.
Vitreous humor
The substance which provides the eyeball with most of the material to maintain its shape.
Auditory ossicles
Structures that are located within the middle ear.
Typmanic membrane
The eardrum, which sound waves hit upon entering the external auditory canal.