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Autonomic Nervous System Flashcards

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Nervous system (2)

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somatic and autonomic

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somatic nervous system is (3)

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sensory to skin body walls limbs, motor to skeletal muscle, conscious/voluntary

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autonomic nervous system is (3)

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viscera blood vessels glands smooth muscle innervation, subconscious/involuntary, 2 neurons from spinal cord to target

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somatic nervous system made of (2)

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sensory and motor

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autonomic nervous system made of (2)

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sympathetic and parasympathetic

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sensory innervation (4)

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pain, pressure, stimuli, touch

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motor innervation (2)

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skeletal muscle and movement

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sympathetic innervation (9)

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thoraco lumbar, energy mobilisation, fight/flight, bronchodilation, vasoconstriction, increased HR, decrease glandular secretion, increase sweat, decrease GI motility

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parasympathetic innervation (6)

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cranio-sacral, conserve energy, bronchoconstriction, decrease HR, increase glandular secretions, decrease sweating, increase GI motility

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What do somatic sensory neurons do

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touch, pain, pressure information from periphery to CNS

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What do somatic motor neurons do

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movement information from CNS to skeletal muscle

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Somatic nervous system elements (10)

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dorsal horn, ventral horn, ventral root, dorsal root, dorsal root ganglion, spinal nerve, sympathetic ganglion, sympathetic trunk, dorsal ramus, ventral ramus

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somatic sensor elements (3)

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from skin, dorsal over middle back/venterolateral body and limbs

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somatic motor elements (3)

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To muscles, dorsal adjacent to vertebra/venterolateral body and limbs

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ANS elements (4)

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cervical ganglia, sympathetic trunk, spinal cord, brainstem

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sympathetic nerve features (2)

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short preganglionic, synapse with postganglionic in sympathetic trunk/prevertebral/visceral ganglia

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sympathetic supply with postaganglionic neurons in the sympathetic trunk (2)

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head and thorax

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postganglionic neurons in the visceral ganglia

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abdomen

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sympathetic neurons to the head run through

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cervical ganglia

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sympathetic neurons through which nerve to abdomen and pelvic viscera

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splanchnic

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sympathetic prganglionic body location (3)

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intermediolateral nucleus, lateral horn, T1-L2/3

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sympathetic pre and post ganglionic synapses

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sympathetic ganglion, cevical sympathetic ganglia x2, visceral ganglion

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unmyelinated grey sympathetic neurons

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postganglionic

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postganglionic neuron to thoracic skin (2)

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sympathetic trunk through grey rami communicantes

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postganglionic body to abdominal viscera

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visceral body

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postganglionic body to thoracic viscera

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sympathetic trunk

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postganglionic body to cervical skin (2)

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cerrvical sympathetic ganglion, ventral ramus

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spinal cord cross section features (4)

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spinal cord, ventral ramus of spinal nerve, dorsal ramus of spinal nerve, dorsal root ganglion

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skin innervation can be split into

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dermatomes

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connects symapthetic ganglion with spinal nerves

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rami communicantes

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types of ganglia (2)

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prevertebral/visceral and sympathetic/paravertebral

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how is sympathetic neuron outtput organised

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segmental organisation

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liver innervation

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stomach innervation

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spleen innervation

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adrenal gland innervation

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Kidney innervation

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pancreas innervation

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small intestines innervation

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ascending colon innervation

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transverse colon innervation

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superior descending colon innervation

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inferior descending colon innervation

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sigmoid colon innervation

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rectum innervation

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parasympathetic nerve

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what does the parasympathetic nervous system do

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conserve body energy

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parasympathetic nervous system location

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cranio-sacral

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what are the parasympathetic preganglionic fibres like

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where do the parasympathetic perganglionic fibres run

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in cranial nerves

51
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parasympathetic preganglionic nerve for thorax and abdomen

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parasympathetic prerganglionic nerve for pelvis

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pelvic splanchnic nerves

53
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where do parasympathetic preganglionic nerves synapse

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on postganglionic nerves near viscera

54
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what do visceral afferent neurons do (3)

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visceral sensory, visceral distension, visceral pain

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