Lecture 11: Peripheral Nervous System Flashcards
Where do Cranial Nerves emerge?
From the brainstem
Where do Spinal Nerves emerge?
From the spinal cord
What are the two types of Peripheral Ganglia?
- Somatic sensory cell bodies
* Autonomic ganglia
How many Cervical Vertebrae and Nerves are there?
7 Cervical Vertebrae and 8 Cervical Nerves
How many thoracic Vertebrae and Nerves are there?
12
How many lumbar vertebrae and nerves are there?
5
How many Sacral vertebrae and nerves are there?
5
How many coccygeal nerves are there?
1
What is a Ganglia?
A collection of neuronal cell bodies in the peripheral nervous system
What do Somatic neurons innervate?
- Skin
- Muscle
- Bone
- Parietal membrane
What type of muscles does the Somatic Nervous system innervate?
Skeletal muscle
What Sensory aspects can the somatic nervous system detect?
Pain, Temperature, Touch, Proprioception
How does the Somatic Nervous system perceive pain?
It perceives pain directly arising from the site of an injury in a sharp, focussed and well-localized manner
What is the Parietal membrane innervated by?
The somatic nervous system
Which organs does the Autonomic Nervous System innervate?
•Visceral: Glands, Smooth muscle, Cardiac muscle, visceral membrane
What are the two components of the Motor Autonomic Nervous System?
Sympathetic and Parasympathetic
How does the Autonomic Nervous system perceive pain?
Pain is vague and ill defined or ache like and indirect/referred
What do Visceral Afferent detect?
Pain
What are the two types of General Afferents?
Somatic Afferent and Visceral Afferents
What are the two types of General Efferents?
Somatic Efferents and Visceral Efferents
What do Somatic Afferents sense?
Pain, temperature, touch, proprioception from body wall
What do Visceral Afferents sense?
Pain, distension, chemical from visceral structures
What are Somatic Efferents?
Motor neurons in the ventral horn projections to skeletal muscles
What are Visceral Efferents?
Autonomic fibres innervating smooth muscle, cardiac muscle and glands
What type of axon does the Dorsal Root contain?
Sensory Axons
What kind of axons does the Ventral root contain?
Motor Axons
What can it be called when the dorsal root and ventral root come together?
A spinal nerve
What are the two branches of a nerve known as after they came together to form a nerve?
The Ventral Primary Ramus and the Dorsal Primary Ramus
What does the Ventral Primary Ramus and the Dorsal Primary Ramus contain?
Both sensory and Motor axons
What axons does the Dorsal Primary Ramus have?
Somatic Motor axons and Somatic Afferents
Where does the Dorsal Primary Ramus inneravte?
The strip on the side of the vertebral column
What does the Ventral Primary Ramus innervate?
Everything but the strip on the sides of the vertebral column
Which part of the vertebrae do nerves exit?
The intervertebral foramen
What wraps around each individual axon?
Endoneurium