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Injury to this nerve results in a loss of full hand grasping.  Hand takes on a claw-like appearance.

You ask a patient “What time is it?”  They respond “My mother and I talked on the phone yesterday about how to make jam”.  You suspect this patient has

Define motor unit. 

Preganglionic cell bodies located in the cervical and sacral regions of the spinal cord.

Consider skeletal muscle, heart, and stomach.  What side effects would you expect to observe in these 3 body systems if your patient were taking large doses of an anticholinergic drug?  Your patient wants to operate a motor vehicle- what advice would you give them?

If your dog has 15 puppies and you need to increase her milk production, you might give her injections of _____.

Write out the 3 overlapping functions of the nervous system.

Consider a basketball player whose heart is racing during the final moments of the game.  With seconds on the clock, she makes a jump shot.  Her excitement is a function of her __________________ nervous system, and her voluntary movements are a function of her ______________ nervous sytem.

Tropic hormone that targets testes in males causing them to increase sex hormone production.

Essay: Answer the following about rigor mortis. a.  Definition: b.  Why it appears after death? c.  Step of cross bridge cycling disrupted? d.  What ion is left in the sarcoplasm?  Why?