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    Anatomy 1 Lab FINAL EXAM ** Covers exercises 13‚ 14‚ 15‚ 16‚ 17‚ 18‚ 20‚ 21‚ 22‚ 23‚ 24‚ 25‚ 26‚ 27** Terms – Intro to Sensory Receptors (Lab 24) General senses – touch‚ pressure‚ changes in temperature‚ pain‚ blood pressure and stretching Special senses – taste‚ smell‚ sight‚ hearing‚ balance Punctate distribution – uneven distribution of sense receptors Stimuli are classified by type (modalities) such as light‚ heat‚ sound‚ pressure and specific chemicals Receptors – receiving units in

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    Physiology Notes

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    the rate of facilitated diffusion Fully permeable(permeable to solutes and water) Water moves down the concentration gradient‚ or towar the solution with the highest concentration solutes….resulting in a volume increase Osmotic pressure(closed system)(mmHG)‚ the more impermeable the higher the osmotic pressure Tonicity(shrink or swell); how a solution affects the volume of a cell Isotonic: same inside and outside Hypertonic: higer

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    Nervous conditions

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    Nervous conditions NERVOUS CONDITIONS Tsitsi Dangarembga ←Context→ Tsitsi Dangarembga finished writing Nervous Conditions when she was in her mid-twenties and‚ upon its publication in 1988‚ won widespread critical acclaim for its complex and nuanced portrayal of the challenges that a young Shona girl faces in her efforts to break free of her impoverished background and acquire an education. “Shona” is the name given to various tribal groupings living mostly in the eastern half of Zimbabwe‚

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    Did you get it? 1. What’s the role of eyelids? To protect the eyes. 2. Which structure of eye forms tears? Lacrimal glands 3. What are tears? A dilute saline solution containing lysozyme and antibodies. 4. What’s the visual role of the external eye muscles? They direct the eyeball toward what you wish to see. 5. What is the meaning of the term blind spot in relation to the eye? The blind spot contains no photoreceptors; it is the site where the optic nerve leaves the eyeball 6. What function

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    Physiology

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    American University of Science & Technology Department of Laboratory Sciences and Technology CHE: 205L: CHEMICAL ANALYSIS LABORATORY Experiment IV Redox Titration Name: Helena Al Jawhary / Partner’s Name: Eyad Aridi Instructor’s Name: Dr Juliana El Khoury Date of experiment: 10/3/2013 Redox Titration Objective: • To learn some technique in volumetric analysis: Redox titration. • To review the stoichiometry of an oxidation-reduction reaction. • To practice the titration

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    Nervous Breakdown

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    QUESTION: Have you ever had the experience of getting nervous breakdown during examination? If so‚ explain the process in order to avoid a nervous breakdown during exams. No matter how much we do to prevent it‚ exams are almost always going to be accompanied by stress. One of the reasons that cause the students felt stress and getting nervous breakdown during examination is the students afraid of not being capable to revise all the important material before the exam and the anxious

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    Physiology

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    Erythrocytes Survive 120 Days Hemoglobin * Globin: 4 folded polypeptide chains * Heme: Iron group in each polypeptide that binds 02 Enzymes: * Glycolytic: generate energy through glycolysis due to lack of mitochondria * Carbonic anhydrase: for transport of CO2 into HCO3 Erythropoiesis: * regeneration of new cells in the bone marrow Erythropoietin (hormone): * when kidneys detect not enough 02 they secrete this hormone which stimulates erythropoiesis‚ increasing 02 capacity

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    Nervous Habits

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    Nervous habits & bad habits for the body are behaviors that we pick up or are set off from the feeling of being nervous‚ stressed out and bored. Whether it’s nail-biting‚ teeth-grinding‚ over eating‚ or hair pulling‚ nervous habits plague many individuals‚ who just can’t seem to stop. But why do we engage in these behaviors and will they have damaging effects on the body? That’s what I’m going to converse about and explain in this paper. Nail biting is the most common type of nervous habits

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    10/21/14 Nervous system: one of the eleven major body organ systems in animals; coordinates and controls actions of internal organs and body systems; receives and processes sensory information from external environment; coordinated short-term reactions to these stimuli. Cell body: the part that contains the nucleus and most of the cytoplasm and the organelles. Axon: sends messages away from the cell body to other neurons. Dendrite: short‚ highly branched fibers that carry signals toward the cell

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    Relationship and Differences between the Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems 73211 Brain & Behaviour Assignment Two The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand 3264 words CENTRAL AND PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS “From the brain‚ and from the brain alone‚ arise our pleasure‚ joys‚ laughter‚ and jokes‚ as well as our sorrows‚ pains‚ griefs‚ and tears. Through it‚ in particular‚ we see‚ hear‚ and distinguish the ugly from the beautiful‚ the bad from the good‚ the pleasant from the unpleasant

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