Peripheral Nervous System Flashcards
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PNS
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- Nerves leading to and from the CNS
- Everything EXCEPT Brain and Spinal Cord
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Somatic Nervous System
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- reacts to outside stimuli (AKA voluntary N.S)
- I can control what I can control
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Cranial Nerves
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- Located in brain stem, can be either sensory or motor neurons
1-12
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Dermatomes
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- area of skin innervated by afferent fivers from an individual spinal nerve
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Myotomes
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- Muscle groups innervated by a spinal nerve
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Cervical Plexus
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- C1-C4 spinal nerves
- contains the phrenic nerve, which innervates the diaphram. the only motor and sensory nerve for this mm.
- C3C4C5 keep a man alive
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Brachial Plexus
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- C5-T1
- 5 primary nerves (Musculocutaneous C5-C7, axillary nerve C5-C6, Radial Nerve C5-C8, Median Nerve C6-C8, T1, and Ulnar Nerve C7-C8, T1).
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Lumbosacral Plexus
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- T12 - CO1