A&P Unit 4 Lecture- Ch 15 ANS and Reflexes

Explain how the autonomic and somatic nervous systems differ in form and function.
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Sympathetic division (stress)​
-Prepares body for physical activity: exercise, trauma, arousal, competition, anger, or fear
​--Increases heart rate, BP, airflow, blood glucose levels, etc.​
--Reduces blood flow to the skin and digestive tract​
--"Fight-or-flight"​
Parasympathetic division ​
-Calms many body functions reducing energy expenditure and assists in bodily maintenance​
--Digestion and waste elimination​
--"Resting and digesting" state​
Tympanic membrane​
--Has 18 times area of oval window​
--Ossicles concentrate the energy of the vibrating tympanic membrane on an area 1/18 that size​
--Ossicles create a greater force per unit area at the oval window and overcome the inertia of the perilymph​
--movement of oval window presses fluid around basilar membrane and places pressure on round window which coverts pressure to action potential
Retina ​
-Attached to eye only at optic disc (posterior exit of optic nerve) and ora serrata (anterior edge of retina)​
-Pressed against rear of eyeball by vitreous humor​
-Detached retina causes blurry areas of vision and can lead to blindness​
-Macula lutea: patch of cells on visual axis of eye​
-Fovea centralis: pit in center of macula lutea​
-Blood vessels of the retina​

Rod Cell- night vision
Cone Cell- day vision