Ch 5 Nervous system 2

Question 1

Dermatome

Answer 1

An area of the skin supplied by nerve fibers originating from a single spinal nerve root

Question 2

Exteroceptors

Answer 2

Record conscious sensations such as heat, cold pain, and pressure in the body

Question 3

Proprioceptors

Answer 3

Sense where the body is and how it moves

Question 4

muscle spindle cells

Answer 4

Are sensory organs in muscle that detect the rate of stretch in the muscles

Question 5

Golgi tendon organs

Answer 5

Are multibranching sensory nerve endings located in tendons

Question 6

ANS: Sympathetic nervous system

Answer 6

Supplies the glands, involentary muscles of internal organs, and walls of blood vessels with nerves and prepares the body for energy-expending circumstances

Question 7

ANS: Parasympathetic nervous system

Answer 7

Functions to conserve energy and reserve the action of the sympathetic division

Question 8

Neurologic pathway

Answer 8

The route that a nerve impulse travels through the nervous system

Question 9

Multiple sclerosis

Answer 9

Occures in young adults and results from the breakdown of the Myelin sheath

Question 10

Parkinsons disease

Answer 10

Occurs as a result of the degeneration of certain nerve Tissues that regulate body movement

Question 11

Quadriplegia

Answer 11

Paralysis of the arms and legs caused by a stroke or spinal cord injury

Question 12

Paraplegia

Answer 12

Paralysis of the lower Extremities; it does not affect the arms or feet

Question 13

Cerebrovascular accident (CVA)

Answer 13

Stroke; caused by blood clot or ruptured blood vessels in or around the brain that subsequently destroys nerve tissue

Question 14

Hemipegia

Answer 14

Unilateral paralysis caused by stroke

Question 15

Epilepsy

Answer 15

A nerologica condition in which there is an abnormal electrical activity in the CNS without apparent tissue abnormalilities

Question 16

Meningitis

Answer 16

An acute inflamation of the pia mater and arachnoid Matter around the brain and spinal cord