Lecture 2: The peripheral Nervous System Flashcards
What does the central nervous system consist of:
- Brain
- Spinal Cord
What does the central nervous system consist of:
- Brain
- Spinal Cord
What are the two main divisions of the peripheral nervous system?
- Sensory Division
- Motor Division
What branches off the sensory division of the peripheral nervous system?
- Visceral sensory division
- Somatic sensory division
What branches of the motor division of the peripheral nervous system?
- Visceral motor division
- Somatic motor division
What branches off the visceral motor division of the peripheral motor division?
- Sympathetic division
- Parasympathetic division
How many paired nerves are there of the peripheral nervous system?
-31 pairs
T/F: The sensory nerves are efferent and ventral.
FALSE (…..nerves are afferent and dorsal.)
T/F: The moter nerves are efferent and ventral.
TRUE
How many thoracic vertebrae are there:
-12 vertabrae
12 pair of nerves
How many lumbar vertebrae are there:
-5 vertebrae
5 pair of nerves
How many sacral vertebrae are there:
-5 vertebrae
5 pairs of nerves
How many cervical vertebrae are there:
7 vertebrae
8 pairs of nerves
How many coccygeal spinal nerve(s) are there:
1
What is the anatomical difference between the MOTOR pathways of the SOMATIC NERVOUS SYSTEM to the skeletal muscle from those of the autonomic nervous system?
- Cell bodies of motor neurons reside in CNS (brain or spinal cord)
- Their axons (sheathed in spinal nerves) extend all the way to their skeletal muscles
What is the anatomical difference between the MOTOR pathways of the AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM to the skeletal muscle from those of the somatic nervous system?
- 1st = preganglionic neuron (in the brain or cord)
- 2nd = ganglionic neuron (cell body in ganglion outside CNS)
- Slower because lightly or unmyelinated
T/F: The autonomic nervous system controls the visceral nervous system.
TRUE
The (autonomic) visceral nervous system controls what parts of the bodies homeostasis?
- arterial pressure
- GI motility and secretion
- GU motility
- Sweating and body temperature
What parts of the nervous system activate the (autonomic) visceral nervous system?
- Spinal cord
- brain stem
- hypothalamus
T/F: The sympathetic nervous system is cholinergic.
FALSE (…system is adrenergic)
- S ympathetic
- E piniphrine
- A drenergic
- N oriepinephrine
T/F: The parasympathetic nervous system is adrenergic.
FALSE (… system is cholinergic)
- P arasympatic
- A cetylcholine
- C holenergic
- M userinic
The sympathetic is for ________ and increased ________.
-mobilization
-metabolism
(fight or flight)
The parasympathetic is for routine _______.
-maintenance
rest and digest
T/F: Each sympathetic nerve is composed of __ neurons.
-2
The preganglionic sympathetic nerve originate in the _____ gray of spinal cord.
-intermediolateral
The postganglionic sympathetic nerve is located in ______ or ______ ganglia.
- paired
- unpaired
Where does the sympathetic stimuli originate from:
-T1 to L2
T/F: The sympathetic nervous system leads to every part of the body.
TRUE
T/F: The parasympathetic nervous system leads to every part of the body.
FALSE