Nervous System
What germ layer forms the nervous tissue?
Ectoderm
What is the plexus that innervates the Gluteal region, pelvis, perineum, legs and feet?
Sacral plexus
What is cranial nerve VIII? What type of nerve is it?
Vestibulocochlear; Sensory
Dura Mater
What receptor responds to pain?
Nociceptors
If I want to speed up the transmission speed of an impulse, what should I do to the axon?
Myelinated and increase the diameter
What are the masses of cell bodies and dendrites in spinal cord?
Horns
What is cranial nerve IV? What type of nerve is it?
Trochlear: Motor
What lobe is responsible for your personality?
Frontal lobe
What action does the Inferior rectus do?
Depresses eye
What is the area of a neuron that takes the impulse and sends it down to other cells
Axon
What is the major nerve that innervates the diaphragm
Phrenic nerve
What types of nerve is the Trigeminal nerves
Both (Motor and Sensory)
What forms the cerebrospinal fluid?
Choroid plexus
In which region of the brain is taste associated with?
Insula
What is the cell that produces the myelin in the in central nervous system?
Oligodendrocytes
What is the area of myelinated fibers in the spinal cord
Funiculi
What is the function of the Facial nerve?
Anterior 2/3 taste, face muscles, stimulate saliva and tear
What is the master control for the autonomic nervous system and the endocrine system?
Hypothalamus
When a sound enters the middle ear, what is the structures the sound goes through starting with tympanic membrane
Tympanic membrane, Malleus, Incus, Stapes, Oval Window
What subdivision of the nervous systems responds to touch, pain, pressure, vibration, proprioception, special senses
Somatic sensory subdivison
What is the area that contains the cell bodies of somatic motor neurons and innervate skeletal muscle
Anterior horn
What is the function of the Vagus Nerve?
Sensation in throat and viscera, swallowing and speaking muscle, innervates abdominal organs
What interprets the sensation of touch or pressure?
Primary somatosensory cortex
What is the visual pathway of a light stimulus starting in the retina?
Retina, Optic Nerve, Optic Chiasm, Optic tracts, Thalamus, Primary visual cortex of occipital lobe