1. What is another name for a pain receptor?
2. What type of receptor senses the position of joints?
3. What type of receptor would be stimulated by the level of acids and bases in the blood?
4. What type of receptor responds to deep pressure?
5. What is a collection of neuron cell bodies in the PNS?
6. What is a collection of axons of neurons in the PNS?
7. Within what structure do motor pathways exit the spinal cord?
8. Within what structure do sensory pathways enter the spinal cord?
9. What happens to the ventral rami of most thoracic nerves?
10. What happens to the ventral rami of the other nerves?
11. What connective tissue covering surrounds a single neuron?
12. What is a mixed nerve?
13. What cells facilitate repair of PNS neuron injuries?
14. How many cervical nerves are there? Thoracic? Lumbar? Sacral?
15. What does the phrenic nerve do and what plexus does it come from?
16. Name the 5 nerves of the brachial plexus.
17. What is the largest nerve in the body and what plexus does it come from?
18. Describe the crossed extensor reflex.
19. What does the muscle spindle sense? What actions does it cause?
20. What does the Golgi tendon organ sense? What actions does it cause?
21. What regions of the CNS give rise to the sympathetic division of the ANS?
22. What regions of the CNS give rise to the parasympathetic division of the ANS?
23. What neurotransmitter binds to alpha and beta adrenergic receptors?
24. Name two cholinergic receptors.
25. Where are muscarinic receptors located?
26. Where are nicotinic receptors located?
For the rest of the questions, answer sympathetic or parasympathetic.
27. fight or flight
28. resting, digesting, conserving energy
29. innervates smooth muscle around blood vessels
30. stimulates adrenal medulla
31. ganglia located in the walls of target organs
32. ganglia located near the spinal cord
33. preganglionic fibers are long
34. preganglionic fibers are short
35.exerts short-lived control over effectors
36. exerts longer-lasting control over effectors
37. postganglionic fibers secrete acetylcholine
38. postganglionic fibers secrete norepinephrine