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Test # 6 cards 3
Labor, birth, and the uterus
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| quart of clear liquid, gives fetus freedom from mechanical pressures, acts as water cushion. temp 99.7 F | Amniotic Fluid |
| uterus thick, three-ply, interwoven muscular layer that is overlapping and opposite-directional. | Myometrium |
| fetus is born butt first | breech |
| hormone secreted by the Corpus Luteum to soften the muscles, cartilage, ligaments, etc around the mother's pubic area for easier childbirth | Relaxin |
| only in Humans and pilot whales, female ovaries lose their ability to reproduce and fertilize, so mense and ovum-release stop. | Menopause |
| functions all activities of the human body internally and externally. Parts include the brain, spinal cord, and nerves that branch off those two key parts. | Neuro-Endocrine |
| cell that has one nerve cell that has an unmistakable shape and amazing numbers | Neuron |
| distinctive extending fibers; that receive | Dendrites |
| distinctive extending fibers; that send | Axons |
| grayish-white insulating fat tissue that axons are wrapped in | Myelin Sheath |
| electrical impulse travels along a neuron cell, when it gets to the end, there is a release | Synapse |
| release of chemical that allow synapse-crossing that "excite" the next neuron cell; | Neurotransmitters |
| 7 times larger than any other comparable animal, and is the most complex and complicated control center | Brain |
| folds in brain | Gyrus |
| when deprived of if for only a movement, it will lose consciousness immediately, thus having its own built-in defense mechanism | Fainting |
| two large hemispheres, making up 88% of the brains size | Cerebrum |
| govern higher mental process; allow humans to think and analyze like no other animal on earth; they are the center of learning, intellect, reasoning, recall, emotion, memory and language | Cerebrum |
| thick bundle of fibers that connect or glue the left & right hemispheres together, and also allowing them to talk to one another | Corpus Callosum |
| brains memory and emotional center. shaped like a seahorse buried deep in the brain | Hippocampus |
| allows humans to love, laugh, cry, fear, remember, and be angry | Limbic System |
| Hippocampus first site of this, build up of tangled, twisted neurons that send messages to the wrong places. | Alzheimer's Disease |
| Lies deep between, takes external information and routes it to the appropriate part of the brain for processing. | Thalamus |
| busiest parts of the brain because its main function is to maintain body homeostasis | Hypothalamus |
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