Nervous system

Question 1

neur/neuro

Answer 1

nerve

Question 2

algia

Answer 2

painful condition

Question 3

dys

Answer 3

painful/difficult/bad

Question 4

glycol

Answer 4

sugar

Question 5

cell body

Answer 5

contains the nucleus

Question 6

dendrites

Answer 6

“little trees” receiving part of neuron

Question 7

axon

Answer 7

conducts nerve impulses toward other neurons, a muscle cell or a gland

Question 8

What are nerves?

Answer 8

are bundles of individual neurons

Question 9

spinal cord has…

Answer 9

31 pairs of spinal nerves

Question 10

how many cervical nerves?

Answer 10

8

Question 11

how many thoracic nerves?

Answer 11

12

Question 12

how many lumbar nerves?

Answer 12

5

Question 13

how many sacral nerves?

Answer 13

5

Question 14

how many coccygeal nerves?

Answer 14

1 pair

Question 15

signals going to the spinal cord or brain are?

Answer 15

afferent

Question 16

signals carried away from the CNS are?

Answer 16

efferent

Question 17

peripheral nervous system is divided into which sections?

Answer 17

somatic and autonomic nervous systems

Question 18

somatic is?

Answer 18

relating to or affecting the body as distinguished from the mind (voluntary)

Question 19

autonomic is?

Answer 19

(ANS) innervates with smooth muscle, cardiac muscles, and glands. Involuntary.

Question 20

autonomic is sub divided into..?

Answer 20

sympathetic (fight or flight) and parasympathetic (rest and digest)