Visceral nervous system

Question 1

Visceral nervous system innervates what structures?

Answer 1

secretory glands, organs of the thoracic and abdominopelvic cavities and the vasculature

Question 2

where is information traveling in regards to afferents?

Answer 2

information is coming into the CNS

Question 3

Cell bodies of the visceral afferents system are acted in which two places?

Answer 3

posterior root ganglia or the relevant cranial nerve ganglia

Question 4

Central processes (axons) enter the cord through what?

Answer 4

posterior cranial root or specific cranial nerve

Question 5

peripheral processes (dendrites) carry impulses from the viscera to cell bodies via what?

Answer 5

autonomic ganglia, plexus or even, somatic nerves without synapsing

Question 6

SYMPATHETIC afferents may travel through sympathetic trunk to spinal ganglia by passing through what structure?

Answer 6

white ramus communicans

Question 7

PARASYMPATHETIC afferents travel in what? (2)

Answer 7

sacral spinal nerves and cranial nerves

Question 8

visceral afferent are associated to that are sensitive what what?

Answer 8

pressure, chemical concentrations and muscle stretching