Anatomy: Urinary continence and renal system pain Flashcards
What are the 2 types of sensory nerve fibres and what do they do
Somatic sensory - sensations from the body wall to the CNS
Visceral Afferent - sensations from the organs to the CNS
What are the 3 types of motor fibres and what do they do
somatic motor - motor responses to our body wall from CNS (stimulate skeletal muscles to contract)
Paraysympathetic
Sympathetic
What nerves are responsible for ureteric peristalsis and bladder contraction
Autonomics (sympathetic and parasympathetic)
What nerve fibres control the urethral sphincter
somatic motor for external
Autonomics for internal (Male only)
What nerve fibres transmit pain from structures in the renal system
Visceral afferents
What nerve fibre transmits pain from the distal urethra
somatic sensory
Why does the testis also have some somatic sensory innervation
Due to its close proximity with the scrotum (body wall structure)
What nerve fibres are responsible for urinary continence
Autonomics
Somatic motor
Visceral afferent
How many spinal nerves do we have
31 pairs
What is the only way in which any type of nerve fibre can communicate with the CNS
being carried within Cranial nerves or spinal nerves
What is the distance that a somatic motor and a somatic sensory nerve will travel
The entire length of the spinal and cranial nerves
What is the distance that an autonomic or visceral afferent nerve will travel within the cranial nerve or spinal nerve
Just a short part of the nerve
How do sympathetic nerve fibres leave the CNS
Only within the spinal nerves between the spinal cord levels T1-L2 (thoracolumbar outflow)
How do sympathetic nerve fibres reach smooth muscle/ glands of the body wall
within the spinal nerves
How do sympathetic nerve fibres reach the smooth smooth muscle/ glands of the body (other than the body wall)
iwhtin nerves caled splanchnic nerves
What are the cardiopulmonary splanchnic nerves
Those which supply the viscera –> heart and respiratory structures)
What are the abdominopelvic splanchnic nerves
Those which supply the viscera of the abdomen and pelvic cavity
How do the sympathetic nerve fibres reach the head
They follow the path of the arteries (internal and external carotid plexus) to reach the viscera within the head
What happens once the sympathetics have left the spinal nerves
They enter the sympathetic chain
How do the sympathetic nerves leave the sympathetic chain
Via anterior rami
What are the little connections that are found between the sympathetic chain and the spinal nerves
Rami communicans
Where doe the sympathetic nerves fibres that innervate the renal system leave the spinal cord
Between T10 and L2
Where are the abdominal sympathetic ganglia located
Around the abdominal aorta
Do the sympathetic nerve fibres synapse in the sympathetic chain
NO - they pass through it and then leave as abdominopelvic splanchnic nerves
Where do the postsynaptic sympathetic nerve fibres pass from and where are they heading
the ganglia onto the surface of the arteries which are heading towards the organs they need to innervate
What is the name given to the collection of nerve fibres found on the outside of the arteries called
periarterial plexus
On what cranial nerves do the parasympathetic nerve fibres leave the CNS
CN 3,7,9 and 10
On what spinal nerves do the parasympathetic nerve fibres leave the CNS
S2,3,4
What is the difference between the abdominopelvic splanchnic nerves and the pelvic splanchnic nerves
Parasympathetics form the pelvic splanchnic nerves
Sympathetics form the abdominopelvic splanchnic nerves
What are the parasympathetic nerve fibres which innervate the kidneys and ureter carried in
The vagus nerve