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1. Diaphoresis is the medical term for profuse sweating or perspiring.

Motor dysfunction is a muscle, nerve, or center that effects or produces motion.

Paresthesias is a sensation of tingling, tickling, prickling, pricking, or burning of a person's skin with no apparent long-term physical effect.

Cyanotic is a bluish discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes; a sign that oxygen in the blood is dangerously diminished.

Hypoventilating is poor or slow breathing.

Bradycardia is the resting heart rate of under 60 beats per minute.

Gastric lavage is the process of cleaning out the contents of the stomach.

Oxygen Saturation is a relative measure of the amount of oxygen that is dissolved or carried in a given medium.

2. The voltage-gated sodium ion channels are a class of transmembrane ion channels that are activated by changes in electrical membrane potential near the channel; these types of ion channels are especially critical in neurons. They are composed of several subunits arranged in such a way that there is a central pore through which ions can travel down their electrochemical gradients.

3. The electrical potential when the neuron is at rest is depolarization and re-polarization.

4. When a electrical potential of a neuron generates an action potential then its a reversal of a cell. An action potential can be described as a impulse.

5. An action potential will be blocked and only one neuron will be blocked because it would not be able to communicate with the others.

6. If a neuron were exposed to tetrodotoxin then the electrical current would open and close the gate.

7. Tetrodotoxin is in a class of chemicals called neurotoxins which affects nerve cells.It blocks electricity- gated sodium in ion channels which are located in the cell membrane.

It interferes with the transmission of signals from nerves to muscles and causes an increasing paralysis of the muscles of the body. It also blocks propagating action potentials and eliminates the...