Biology
- Human Body Systems
Human Body Systems!Integumentary System: Your body is very prone to damage, and that's why we have this system! This is an organ system that helps protect the body. It has many functions such as to cushion, excrete wastes, regulate temperatures...
- Autonomous Nervous System
Term: autonomous nervous system Literally meaning: ?self ?govering nervous system? Origin: Anc Greek????-/auto-(=combining form meaning ?one's own? or ?by oneself?) >?????/autos(=self, same)+ ?????/nomos(=division, law) > ????/nemo(=distribute,...
- Syrinx (plural Syringes)
Term: syrinx (plural syringes) Origin: Anc Greek ??????/syrix (=pan pipes or pan flute) an ancient musical instrument, consisting of cane pipes of different lengths. In Greek mythology Syrinx was a nymph who was changed into reed to save...
- Neuron (or Nerve Cell Or Neurone)
Term: neuron (or nerve cell or neurone) Origin: Ancient Greek ?????/nevra (=cutgut) (?????? (?>?)/nearon (=young) because catgut were made from intestines of young animals. Coined: by the German scientist Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz...
- Neuroglia
Term: neuroglia or glial cell or glia Origin: Medieval Greek gloia, ????? (glue) Coined: - Definition: The supportive tissue of the nervous system, including astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, and microcytes in the central nervous system...
Biology
sympathetic
Term: sympathetic
Literally meaning: ?feel with?
Origin: Anc Greek
?????????/sympathia(=sympathy, capability to recognize or feel another?s suffering) > ???/syn(=together, with) + ?????/pathos (=passion, sorrow, strong emotion) >?????/pascho(=to be affected by, to suffer).
Coined/History
The notion that sympathetic nervous system coordinates body functions originated by Greek physician Galen who taught that nerves were hollow tubes distributing ?animal spitrits? in the body , thereby fostering concerred action, or ?syphathy? of the organs. In 1732 Danish anatomist Jacques-Benigne Winslow (1669-1760) coined the term sympathetic nervous system to describe the hains of ganglia and nerves connented to the thoracic and lumbar spinal cord. Bichat (1771-1802) divided life into two distinct forms, one governed by the brain, and the other (organic, vegetative, life) by the abdominal ganglia. Vegetative life was seen as connected with the passions and independent of education, governed by independently functioning abdominal ganglia, a chain of ?little brains?. English physiologist John Langley (1852-1925) introduced the term autonomous nervous system and parasympathetic nervous system to denote the cranial and sacral portions of the nervous system, in contrast with the sympathetic nervous system, which originates from thoracolumbar ganglia. Langley?s coinage was based on the obsarvation that parasympathetic nerves emerge from the brain and the sacral segments of the spinal cord and thus to either side of the regions of the cord from wich sympathetic fibers arise. As Langley quoted ?the autonomic nervous sytem means the nervous system of the glands and of the involuntary muscle; it governs the ?organic? functions of the body. (J of Physiology, 1898-1899).
Definition
Sympathetic term is relating to the sympathetic autonomous nervous system that acts in opposition to the parasympathetic system accelerates heartbeat, dilating the pupils of the eyes and bronchioles (fight-or-flight response). Sympathetic nervous system originates from spinal cord in the thoracolumbar region.
- Human Body Systems
Human Body Systems!Integumentary System: Your body is very prone to damage, and that's why we have this system! This is an organ system that helps protect the body. It has many functions such as to cushion, excrete wastes, regulate temperatures...
- Autonomous Nervous System
Term: autonomous nervous system Literally meaning: ?self ?govering nervous system? Origin: Anc Greek????-/auto-(=combining form meaning ?one's own? or ?by oneself?) >?????/autos(=self, same)+ ?????/nomos(=division, law) > ????/nemo(=distribute,...
- Syrinx (plural Syringes)
Term: syrinx (plural syringes) Origin: Anc Greek ??????/syrix (=pan pipes or pan flute) an ancient musical instrument, consisting of cane pipes of different lengths. In Greek mythology Syrinx was a nymph who was changed into reed to save...
- Neuron (or Nerve Cell Or Neurone)
Term: neuron (or nerve cell or neurone) Origin: Ancient Greek ?????/nevra (=cutgut) (?????? (?>?)/nearon (=young) because catgut were made from intestines of young animals. Coined: by the German scientist Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz...
- Neuroglia
Term: neuroglia or glial cell or glia Origin: Medieval Greek gloia, ????? (glue) Coined: - Definition: The supportive tissue of the nervous system, including astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, and microcytes in the central nervous system...