Neuromuscular Concepts

Question 1

Part of the nervous system that includes the brain and spinal cord

Answer 1

Central Nervous System

Question 2

Part of the nervous system that innervates smooth muscle (involuntary muscle)

Answer 2

Autonomic Nervous System

Question 3

Part of the nervous system that innervates skeletal muscle (voluntary muscle)

Answer 3

Somatic Nervous System

Question 4

Part of the nervous system activated during the “fight-or-flight” situations (and exercise)

Answer 4

Sympathetic Nervous System

Question 5

Part of the nervous system that slows the heart rate

Answer 5

Parasympathetic Nervous System

Question 6

Part of the nerve cell that transmits a neve impulse away from the cell body

Answer 6

Axon

Question 7

Neurons that supply skeletal muscle fibers causing them to contract

Answer 7

Motor Neurons

(Sensory neurons transmit information from peripheral sensory receptors to the brain)

Question 8

Part of the nerve cell that transmits a nerve impulse toward the cell body

Answer 8

Dendrites

Question 9

Electrical energy self-propagated along an axon

Answer 9

Nerve Impulse

Question 10

What is laid down in segments with small gaps in between called nodes of Ranvier which help speed up nerve conduction.

Answer 10

Myelin Sheaths

Question 11

Thin Protein that is the active component in the muscular contractile process

Answer 11

Actin

Question 12

Extensions of the myosin filament that that help ratchet the sliding filament mechanism

Answer 12

Cross-Briges