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A patient can’t close their eye or smile on one side of their face. What condition is likely?

What is Bell’s palsy?

100

This condition involves excessive vasoconstriction in fingers/toes during cold or stress.

What is Raynaud’s disease?

100

The part of the ear where sound vibrations are turned into nerve impulses.

What is the cochlea?

100

Overactivation of the sympathetic nervous system can contribute to this chronic condition.

What is hypertension?

100

This neurotransmitter is released by all autonomic preganglionic neurons.

What is acetylcholine (ACh)?

200

The ability to tell where on the body you were touched.

What is spatial discrimination?

200

Adrenergic receptors respond to these neurotransmitters.

What are norepinephrine and epinephrine?

200

This nerve helps carry taste sensations from the anterior two-thirds of the tongue.

What is the facial nerve (VII)?

200

This nerve is tested with the corneal reflex.

What is the trigeminal nerve (V)?

200

This type of reflex is present at birth and involuntary.

What is an intrinsic (inborn) reflex?

300

In this reflex, one limb flexes while the opposite limb extends.

What is the crossed-extensor reflex?

300

This type of reflex helps maintain stable blood pressure.

What is a baroreceptor reflex?

300

Loss of hearing due to damage to hair cells or auditory nerve is called:

What is sensorineural deafness?

300

Nicotinic agents can be used to treat this addictive behavior.

What is nicotine addiction (or smoking)?

300

This muscarinic agent can be used to treat glaucoma by promoting pupil constriction.

What is pilocarpine?

400

Loss of taste and facial movement may indicate damage to this cranial nerve.

What is the facial nerve (VII)?

400

These receptors are found on parasympathetic target organs and may be excitatory or inhibitory.

What are muscarinic receptors?

400

This term refers to the height of a sound wave and determines loudness.

What is amplitude?

400

Order of the reflex arc.

What is: receptor → afferent neuron → integration center → efferent neuron → effector?

400

This nerve emerges from the lumbar plexus and innervates the anterior thigh.

What is the femoral nerve?

500

This clinical test evaluates oculomotor nerve function by observing pupil response to light.

What is the pupil light reflex?

500

These parasympathetic ganglia are found in or near the target organs.

What are terminal (or intramural) ganglia?

500

This syndrome affects both hearing and balance and includes vertigo and pressure.

What is Meniere’s syndrome?

500

Sympathetic preganglionic neurons are ___, and postganglionic neurons are ___.

What are short; long?

500

The type of motor loss that results from ventral root damage.

What is motor loss without sensory loss?

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