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Final
Week 6 - 12
Question | Answer |
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The term ____is used to describe a muscle that directly performs a specific movement. | agonist |
The muscle fascicle arrangement for Orbicularis oris is best characterized as _________. | circular. |
The muscle that helps hold the scapula aganist the thorax and is useful in pushing or punching movement is the ____ | serratus anterior. |
The long axes of the fascicles run parallel to the long axis of the muscle is a description of this type of fascicle arrangement___ | parallel. |
The continous low level of sustained contraction mantained by all skeletal muscles is muscle ______ | tone. |
Nerves that contain mostly afferent fibers are called _______nerves. | sensory |
Small distinct regions of gray matter in the CNS are called | nuclei. |
Interneurons reside in the: | CNS only. |
One of the components of the blood-brain barrier is: | astrocytes |
The nervous system can be divided: | according to its structures, according to direction of information flow, by control effectors |
Multipolar neurons have: | multiple dendrites and one axon. |
Sterling's law of the heart states that, within limits, the longer, or more stretched, the heart fibers ar at the begining of the contraction, the | stronger the contraction. |
Which are the two baroreceptors that are located near the heart? | aortic baroreceptors and carotid barareceptors |
Cardiac outputis determined by | stroke volume and heart rate. |
Which antibody is synthesized by immature B cells and then inserted into their plasma membrances? | immunoglobulin M |
The movement of phagocytes from blood vessels to an inflammation site is called | diapedesis. |
Olfactory epithelium if found | covering the superior turbinate. |
Paranasal sinuses are normally filled with: | air |
The upper respiratory tract includes all of the following structures except the: | trachea |
The eustacian tube connects the middle ear with the: | nasopharynx. |
The approximate length of the trachea, or windpipe , is ____cm. | 11 |