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