Nervous System Tings

Question 1

What is white matter in the spinal cord?

Answer 1

Myelinated Axons

Question 2

What is gray matter in the spinal cord?

Answer 2

Soma

Question 3

What is the dorsal root?

Answer 3

Somatic and visceral sensory (afferents)

Question 4

What is a ventral root?

Answer 4

Somatic and visceral motor (efferent)

Question 5

What is the dorsal root ganglia?

Answer 5

The somas of sensory neurons

Question 6

What is the somatic nervous system?

Answer 6

Nerves for skin, joints, and muscles

Question 7

What are the two divisions of the somatic nervous system?

Answer 7

Sensory and motor

Question 8

What is the autonomic nervous system?

Answer 8

Nerves in internal organs, blood vessels, and glands

Question 9

What are the divisions of the autonomic nervous system?

Answer 9

Sympathetic and parasympathetic

Question 10

What is the Enteric nervous system?

Answer 10

Brain in the gut

Question 11

What is the sympathetic system in charge of?

Answer 11

Fight or flight

Question 12

What is the parasympathetic responsible for?

Answer 12

Rest and digest

Question 13

What are the three meningial layers?

Answer 13

Dura mater, arachnoid membrane, Pia mater

Question 14

What is inside the subarachnoid space?

Answer 14

CSF and blood vessels

Question 15

What are ventricles?

Answer 15

CSF filled caverns and canals

Question 16

What does the CSF do?

Answer 16

Cushions the brain, delivers nutrients to the brain, and removes waste from brain

Question 17

What is CSF produced by?

Answer 17

Choroid plexus

Question 18

What absorbs CSF?

Answer 18

Blood vessels in arachnoid villi