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A & P Test 1
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Anatomy
Undergraduate 2
07/05/2011

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Term
What are the divisions of the nervous system?
Definition

CNS & PNS

Sensory & Motor

Somatic & Visceral

ANS

ENS

Term
Explain CNS vs. PNS
Definition

CNS= Brain/ Spinal Cord

PNS= Cranial/ Spinal Nerves

Term
What is an effector?
Definition
Neurons that carry impulses from CNS to responsive structures.
Term
Explain Sensory vs. Motor
Definition

Sensory= Information carried out by afferent neuron toward the CNS,initiated by a receptor.

Motor= Information carried out by efferernt neuron away from CNS.

Term
Explain Somatic vs. Visceral
Definition

Somatic=Carries information to skeletal muscle (vol)

Visceral(autonomic)=carries information to smooth muscle glands (involuntary).

Term
What are 2 types of effectors?
Definition

Muscle

gland

Term
What are the two neuromuscular junctions/synapse.
Definition

Neuroneuronal

neuroglandular

Term
Explain Sympathetic vs. Parasympathetic
Definition

S= Up system

p= Down system

Term
What does the ENS control?
Definition

Smooth muscle movement

organ secretion

Term
What are the functions of the nervous system?
Definition

Sensory (receiving)

Integrative(deciding)

Motor(reacting)

Term
What are the three parts of a neuron?
Definition

Dendrite

soma

axon

Term
What is a dendrites function?
Definition

80% of receptors, sensory portion

and carries out stimulus toward soma

Term
What is a somas function?
Definition
contains nucleus , 20%
Term
What is an axons function?
Definition
Motor portion carries impulse from soma to next target
Term
What are the two parts of a triggerzone?
Definition

axon hillock

initial segment

Term
What is white matter vs. gray?
Definition

Mylinated axons

Unmylinated

Term
What are the characteristics of nerve tissue?
Definition

irratability

conductivity

secretion

Term
What are the functions of nerve tissue?
Definition

electrical control

regulation

communication

evaluation

brain functions

Term
What are nodes of ranvier?
Definition
Narrow gaps in myelin sheath between schwann cells.
Term
What are the four types of flial cells in the CNS?
Definition

Microglia

Astrocytes

Oligodendrocytes

Ependymal cells

 

Term
What are the 2 glial cells in the PNS?
Definition

Schwann cells

satellite cells

Term
What are astrocytes divided into?
Definition

Fibroastrocytes- hold neurons in place and replace damaged

Protoplasmicastrocytes- control chemical concentration

Term
What do Schwann cells do?
Definition
Produce myelin
Term
What do satellite cells do?
Definition
Help hold neurons in place
Term
What do microglia do?
Definition
Clean up debris
Term
What do oligendrocytes do?
Definition
Produce myelin surrounding axons
Term
Action vs. Local Potential
Definition

Action: Irreversible, nongraded, stimulatory, nondecremental.

Local: reversible, graded, stimulatory and or inhibitory,decremental.

Term
What are the components of a reflex arc?
Definition

receptor

sensory neuron

interneuron

motor neuron

effector

Term
What is the difference between pre and post synaptic inhibition?
Definition

Pre- where effectors are occuring and less stimulation

post- no stimulation releases potassium

Term
What are the three layers of meninges?
Definition

Dura Mater- tough mother

Arachnoid- spiderweb like

pia mater- faithful mother

Term
What are the 4 ventricles?
Definition

Lateral (2)

third

fourth

Term
What are the basic functions of the brain?
Definition

recieve

analyze

sensory

determine response

motor output

Term
What are the primary vesicles?
Definition

Prosencephalon(forebrain)

Mesencephalon(midbrain)

Rhombencephalon(hindbrain)

Term
What are the secondary vesicles?
Definition

Telencephalon/Discephalon = Pro

Mesencephalon

Metercephalon/myelencephalon=Rhomb

Term
What are the adult structures of the vesicles?
Definition

Cerebrum= telencephalon

thalamus,hypothalamus,epithalamus=diencephalon

Pons/cerebellum= metencephalon

medulla oblongotta-myelincephalon

Term
What does the cerebellum contain?
Definition

Gyri

sulci

fissures

hemispheres

lobes

Term
What are gyri?
Definition
Folds of material/bumps
Term
What are sulci?
Definition
Grooves in Gray matter
Term
What are fissures?
Definition
Deep lines of division
Term
What are hemispheres?
Definition
Left and right cerebrals
Term
What are the cerebral lobes and their functions?
Definition

Frontal- concentration, planning, problem solving

Parietal- speech, words, pain, temperature

Temporal- auditory, hearing

occipital- vision

Term
what is teh central sulcus?
Definition
Division between motor and sensory & parietal and frontal.
Term
what is the cerebral collosum?
Definition
main connection between right and left hemispheres called "great commissure"
Term
What are the five major addiction classes?
Definition

drug

work

gambling

food

sex

Term
what is brochas area?
Definition
speech carried out by motor activity
Term
What is Wornickies area?
Definition
understanding. intelligence. reading. writing
Term
What is the thalamus?
Definition

Gateway to the cerebral

23 nuclei

Term
What is perkinsons disease associated with?
Definition
Dopamine in basal nuclei because not able to activate or release
Term
What is the connection between the lateral and third ventricle called?
Definition
Interventicular foramen
Term
What are the 5 areas of Thalamic Functions?
Definition

Somesthetic

motor

visual

audio

emotional

Term
What is the hypothalamus functions
Definition

Controls heart rate

body temp

hunger/thirst

sleep

emotions/memory

light in eyes

gastro intestinal secretions

Term
What is the epithalamus?
Definition
Pineal gland influencing 24 hr sleep cycle and tells when full
Term
What is a brainstem?
Definition
majory highway connection containing midbrain pons and medulla
Term
what is a midbrain?
Definition
connects hind with forbrain
Term
What is pons?
Definition

regular rate of breathing

for transmission

Term
What is medulla oblongota?
Definition
primary place for breathing associatied with cardiac Vasomotor and respiratory centers
Term
What is reticular formation
Definition
Filters incoming sensory information
Term
What is the choroid plexus?
Definition
Capillaries that secrete cerebral spinal fluid into brain
Term
What are the functions of spinal fluid?
Definition

buoyancy

protection

chemical stability

Term
What are the three cerebellar pendicules?
Definition

Superior

inferior

middle

Term
What are the six eye muscles?
Definition

superior, inferior, medial, lateral rectus

superior and inferior obliques

Term
What does the spinal cord have?
Definition
Epidural layers of adipose not dura.
Term
What are the spinal cords tracts?
Definition

acending= sending in sensory info

decending= sending out motor info

Term
What do gray and white matter do?
Definition

G= recieves incoming info in horns

W= carry info up and down in collumns

Term
What are the three types of acending tracts?
Definition

Fasciculus(posture)

spinothalamic(pain)

Spinocerebellar(movement)

Term
What are three decending tracts?
Definition

Corticospinal (voluntary move)

vestibulospinal (balance)

tectospinal ( move of head)

Term
What are the first six cranial nerves and their functions?
Definition

C-I: Olifactory- sensory- smell

C-II: Optic-sensory-vision

C-III: Oculomotor- Motor- Movement of eye, opening eye, sixe of pupil

C-IV: Trochlear- motor- eye movement and movement of superior oblique

C-V:Trigeminal-mixed- facial expresions and produce saliva/taste

C-VI:Adbducens-motor-moves lateral rectus.

C-VII: Facial-mixed-facial expressions, produce saliva, taste.

C-VIII:Vestibulochlear-sensory-hearing/balance

C-IX: Glossopharngeal-mixed-taste,control blood pressure, and release saliva.

C-X: Vagus: mixed- viscera control

C-XI: Accessory-motor-control head/neck

C-XIII: hypoglossal-motor-respiration, tongue.

Term
When is spinal cord at largest?
Definition
When exits brainstem
Term
What is phylum?
Definition
True end of spinal cord
Term
What is cauda equata
Definition
horse tail
Term
What is conus medulanus?
Definition
Spinal cord forms end at L2
Term
What is a plexus?
Definition
Group of nerves exiting from common location and destination
Term
what are the four plexi?
Definition

Cervical

brachial

lumbar

sacral

Term
 What nerve does the cervical plexus have?
Definition
Femoral
Term
What nerve does cervical plexus have?
Definition
Phrenic nerve (diaphram)
Term
What does brachial plexus contain?
Definition

axillary

median

radial

ulnar

musculataneaus

Term
What does sacral contain?
Definition
Sciatic Nerve- tibial and fibial
Term
What is the structure of a peripheral nerve?
Definition

Epineurium- outermost layer

perineurium- looser layer

endoneurium-small lose tissue

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