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There are ___ number of cranial nerves and ____ number of spinal nerves.
12, 31
Cranial Nerves I-VI
I - Olfactory
II - Optic
III - Oculomotor
IV - Trochlear
V - Trigeminal
VI - Abducens
Cranial Nerves VII - XII
VII - Facial
VIII - Vestibulocochlear
IX - Glossopharyngeal
X - Vagus
XI - Accessory
XII - Hypoglossal
The _____ nerve is associated with smell and contains _____ nerve fibers. It originates from the _____.
Olfactory
Sensory
Forebrain
The _____ nerve transmits visual impulses from the retina to the thalamus. It contains _____ nerve fibers and originates in the _____.
Optic
Sensory
Forebrain
The _____ means "eye mover" and contains _____ nerve fibers. It originates in the _____.
Oculomotor
Motor
Midbrain
The ____ nerve means "pulley" and innervates an extrinsic eye muscle. It contains _____ nerve fibers and originates in the ____.
Trochlear
Motor
Dorsal midbrain
The _____ nerve supplies _____ fibers to the face and _____ fibers to the chewing muscles. It originates in the _____.
Trigeminal
sensory
motor
Pons
The _____ nerve controls extrinsic eye muscles. It contains _____ nerve fibers and originates in the _____.
Abducens
Motor
Pons
The _____ nerve innervates the muscles of facial expressions. It contains _____ nerve fibers and originates in the _____. _____ ______ disease is associated with this nerve.
Facial
Pons
Mixed
Bell's palsy
The _____ nerve is associated with hearing and balance. It contains _____ nerve fibers and originates in the _____.
Vestibulocochlear
Sensory
Pons
The _____ nerve means "tongue and pharynx". It contains _____ nerve fibers and originates in the _____.
Glossopharyngeal
Mixed
Medulla oblongota
The _____ nerve means"wanderer" or "vagabond" and is the only cranial nerve that extend beyond the head and neck. It contains _____ nerve fibers and originates in the _____.
Vagus
Mixed
Medulla
The _____ nerve is associated with the trapezius and sternocleidomastoid muscles. It contains _____ nerve fibers and originates in the _____.
Accessory
Motor
spinal rootlets from the cervical spine
The _____ nerve means under the tongue. It contains _____ nerve fibers and originates in the _____.
Hypoglossal
Motor
Madulla
The ______ _______ re-enters the vertebral canal innervate the ______ and blood vessels.
Menigeal branch
meninges
The _____ nerve supplies motor and sensory fibers to the ______ which controls ______.
Phrenic
diaphragm
breathing
The _____ nerve receives fibers from C3, C4, and C5.
Phrenic
____ is when the upper eyelid droops.
Ptosis
______ ______ is when the eye cannot be moved up, down, or inward, and at rest eye rotates laterally. Caused by _____ nerve paralysis.
External strabismus
Oculomotor
Post ganglionic axons forming the ____ ______ are not myelinated.
gray rami
Postganglionc axons enter the ventral ramus of the adjoining spinal nerve by ____ ______ ______, then travel to their effectors (glands and arrector pili).
Gray rami communicantes
______ fibers emerge from the brain and sacral spinal cord.
Parasympathetic
______ fibers originate in the thoracolumbar region of the spinal cord.
Sympathetic
The parasympathetic division has _____ preganglionic and _____ postganglionic fibers.
Long
Short
_____ nerves are made of preganglionic fibers. Synapse in ______ or _____ ganglia located anterior to the vertebral column.
Splanchnic
collateral
prevertebral
______, ______, and _____ are the three branches of the trigeminal nerve.
ophthalimic, maxillary, and mandibular
The ______ division conveys sensory impulses from skin of anterior scalp, upper eyelid, and nose.
Ophthalmic
The _____ division conveys sensory impulses from nasal cavity, palate, upper teeth, skin of cheek, upper lip, and lower eyelid.
Maxillary
The _____ division conveys sensory impulses from anterior tongue, lower teeth, skin of chin.
Mandibular
The _____ ______ gives rise to virtually all the nerves that innervate the upper limb.
brachial plexus
The _____ ______ is formed by intermixing of ventral rami of C5-C8 and most of T1.
brachial plexus
The brachial plexus has four major groups: ____ form ____ which form ____ which form _____.
Roots
Trunks
Divisions
Cords
The _____ nerve innervates the deltoid and teres minor muscles and the skin and joint capsules of the shoulder.
Axillary
The _____ nerve provides motor fibers to thebiceps bracii and brachialis muscles.
Musculocutaneous
The _____ nerve descends through the arm to the anterior forearm. It innervates five intrinsic muscles of the lateral palm.
Median
___ ___ ___ control locomotion and other specific and oft-repeated motor activities.
Central pattern generators
The ____ _____ is formed by the ventral rami of the first four cervical nerves.
Cervical plexus
Branches of the _____ plexus transmit sensory impulses from the skin of the neck, the ear area, the back of the head, and the shoulder.
Cervical
The ____ ____ arises from the spinal nerves L1-L4.
Lumbar plexus
The branches of the _____ plexus innervate parts of the abdominal wall muscles and major branches descend to the innervate the anterior and medial thigh.
Lumbar
The ____ _____ arises from spinal nerves L5 - S4.
Sacral Plexus
The _____ nerve is the largest branch of the sacral plexus.
Sciatic
The _____ nerve consists of the ____ and _____ _____ nerve, wrapped in a common sheath.
Sciatic, tibial, common fibular
The _____ nerve originates from L2-L4.
Femoral
The motor branch of the _____ nerve innervates anterior ____ muscles and the cutaneous branch serves skin of the ____ and medial surface of the leg from ____ to _____.
Femoral
Thigh
Thigh
knee
Foot
The _____ ______ makes sure that the muscle stays at that length.
stretch reflex
The ____-____ reflex helps keep your knees from buckling when standing up right.
knee-jerk
The _____ nerve innervates posterior muscles of the leg, posterior skin of the calf and sole of the foot.
Tibial
The ____ nerve is the cause of the saying 'funny bone'.
Ulnar
____'s _____ states: any nerve serving a muscle that produces movement at a joint also innervates the joint and the skin over the joint.
Hilton's Law
______ respond to chemicals in solution.
Chemoreceptors
______ are sensitive to stimuli arising outside the body, located near the body's surface.
Exteroceptors
______ include touch, pressure, pain, and temperature receptors and special receptors.
Exteroceptors
_____ respond to stimuli within the body.
Interoceptors
______ monitor chemical changes, tissue stretch, and temperature. Sometimes cause pain, discomfort, hunger, or thirst.
Interoceptors
_____ respond to internal stimuli with restricted locations. Occur in the skeletal muscles, tendons, joints, and ligaments.
Proprioceptors
_____ advise the brain of our body movements by monitoring how much the organs containing these receptors are stretched.
Proprioceptors
____ respond to potentially damaging stimuli that results in pain. For example, searing heat.
Nociceptors
____'s _____ are small encapsulated receptors in which a few spiraling sensory terminals are surrounded by Schwann cells.
Meissner's corpuscles
____'s _____ are found just beneath the epidermis in the dermal papillae and are numerous in sensitive and hairless areas (nipples, fingertips, and soles of feet)
Meissner's corpuscles
Perceptual level neurons synapse in the ______.
Thalamus
____ _____ is when the great toe dorsiflexes and the smaller toes fan laterally
Babinski's sign
The process in which stimulus energy is converted into the energy of a graded potential is called ______.
Transduction
The cell bodies of the ganglionic neurons are in the ____ _____ within the eye orbits.
ciliary ganglion
The _____ ______ are motor ganglia, containing cell bodies of motor neurons.
autonomic ganglia
_____ _____ are the sites of synapse and information transmission from preganglionic to ganglionic neurons.
autonomic ganglia
The _____ nervous system stimulates skeletal muscles.
somatic
The _____ nervous system innervates cardiac and smooth muscles and glands.
Autonomic
_____ _____ fibers are typically thick, heavily myelinated group A fibers that conduct nerve impulses rapidly.
somatic motor
In the somatic nervous system, the motor neuron cell bodies are in the ____, and their axons extend down the _____ or _____ nerves all the way to the skeletal muscles they activate.
CNS, spinal, cranial
The _____ nervous system uses a two-neuron chain to its effectors.
autonomic
In the ANS, cell bodies of the first neuron (____ _____) reside in the brain or spinal cord.
preganglionic neuron
The preganglionic neuron's axon synapses with the second motor neuron in an _____ _____, outside the CNS.
autonomic ganglion
The _____ _____ extends to the effector organ.
Postganglionic axon
The _____ nervous system lacks ganglia entirely.
somatic
The _____ and _____ divisions make up the ANS.
parasympathetic, sympathetic
The _____ division of the ANS is sometimes referred to as 'housekeeping'.
parasympathetic
The parasympathetic is the 'D' division: _____, ______, and _____.
digestion, defecation, diuresis
The sympathetic division is the 'E' division: _____, _____, _____, and _____)
exercise, emergency, excitement, and embarrassment
The _____ division of the ANS is referred to as the 'figh-or-flight' division.
sympathetic
_____ reflexes activate the skeletal muscles.
somatic
_____ reflexes activate smooth or cardiac muscles or glands (_____ effectors).
visceral, visceral
Parasympathetic fibers emerge from the _____ and _____ spinal cord.
brain, sacral
Sympathetic fibers originate in the _____region of the spinal cord.
thoracolumbar
The parasympathetic fibers of the _____ nerves innervate smooth muscles in the eyes causing the pupils to constrict and lenses to bulge - focusing.
Oculomotor
The parasympathetic fibers of the _____ nerves stimulate many large glands in the head.
Facial
The parasympathetic fibers in the _____ nerve activate the salivary glands.
Glossopharyngeal
The _____ _____ connects the preganlionic sympathetic fibers to the sympathetic trunk gaanglion.
white rami
The somatic system (sensory) contains: _____ level, _____ level, and _____ level.
Receptor
Circuit
Perceptual
Transduction occurs when _____ energy is converted into the energy of a _____ _____.
Stimulus
Graded Potential
_____ nerves contain both sensory and motor fibers.
Mixed nerves
_____ nerves transmit impulses both to and from the CNS.
Mixed nerves
_____ (_____) nerves carry impulses toward the CNS.
sensory (afferent)
_____ (_____) nerves carry impulses away from the CNS.
Motor (efferent)
_____ are a collection of neuron cell bodies associated with nerves of the PNS.
Ganglia
_____ _____ occurs when the axon and its myelin sheath distal to the injury site begin to disintegrate because they cannot receive nutrients from the cell body.
Wallerian degeneration
_____ _____ aid in the regeneration of axons.
Schwann cells
Axons regenerate at the rate of ____ mm a day.
1.5
Preganglionic fibers composing the ____ rami are _____.
White
myelinated
Postganlionic axons forming the _____ rami are _____.
Gray
unmyelinated