Medical Detectives
Across
- 2. conscious perception of visual input
- 5. medical doctor specializing in children
- 6. carries messages from sensory organs to the cerebrum
- 11. nervous system that is made up of nerves
- 12. yeast or molds
- 14. visual perception and involved in some forms of visual, short-term memory
- 15. doctor who specializes in disorders of the brain, spine, and nerves
- 16. nerve fibers that connect the left and right cerebral hemispheres
- 18. medical professional who studies and investigates the incidence, distribute, and possible control of diseases
- 19. single-celled organisms that do not rely on a host to multiply and requires an antibiotic
- 23. normal range is 98.7 through 99.1 degrees
- 24. voluntary control of skeletal muscles
Down
- 1. nervous system that includes the brain and spinal cord
- 3. receives information about smells from the nose and send it to the brain
- 4. receive visual stimuli from the eyes and relay this information to the visual cortex in the occipital lobe
- 7. normal group before experimented with
- 8. sensing touch, spatial processing, language, memory
- 9. infectious agents that need a host to multiply and are too tiny to see under a classroom microscope that does not need an antibiotic
- 10. chemicals that assist in passing a signal through the synapse
- 12. planning, initiated movements, social and emotional processing, attention, memory retrieval and storage
- 13. branch extending from a neuron that receives signals from another neuron
- 17. sensing touch, pressure, vibration, pain, temperature, and taste
- 20. clues about a person's diagnosis if ill
- 21. beats per minute
- 22. reasoning, planning, memory, and sensory processing