Week 3-Chapter 10

Question 1

Analgesics

Answer 1

Drugs that reduce pain

Question 2

Biofeedback

Answer 2

A measurement of physiological responses that yields information about the relationship between the mind and the body and helps people manipulate those responses through mental activity

Question 3

Bell’s palsy

Answer 3

Disorder that affects the facial nerve

Question 4

Carpal tunnel syndrome

Answer 4

A condition that affects the median nerve and the flexor tendons that attach to the bones of the wrist

Question 5

Cranial nerves

Answer 5

12 nerves originating from the brain stem that each have a specific function

Question 6

Congenital insensitivity to pain

Answer 6

A birth defect in which there is insensitivity to pain. Anhidrosis, or the inability to sweat, and intellectual disability

Question 7

Charcot Marie tooth disease

Answer 7

The most common inherited neurological condition, which is caused by a gene defect, symptoms include hammer toes, high foot arch, and foot drop. Also called hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy

Question 8

Effectors

Answer 8

The responding organs to a stimulus, which may be in the form of movement

Question 9

Ganglia

Answer 9

A mass of nerve cell bodies outside the central nervous system

Question 10

Femoral nerve

Answer 10

Found in the lumbar plexus, it stimulates the hip and leg

Question 11

Mixed nerve

Answer 11

Nerve composed of both afferent (sensory) fibers and efferent (motor) fibers

Question 12

Motor nerve (efferent nerve)

Answer 12

Nerve fiber that carries impulses from the brain or spinal cord to muscles, organs, or glands

Question 13

Electromyography (EMG)

Answer 13

Device used to measure electrical muscle activity

Question 14

Neuralgia

Answer 14

Severe, stabbing pain along the pathway of a nerve

Question 15

Neuritis

Answer 15

Inflammation of a nerve

Question 16

Parasympathetic system

Answer 16

Division of the autonomic nervous system that inhibits or opposes the effects of the sympathetic nervous system

Question 17

Phrenic nerve

Answer 17

Nerve that controls the diaphragm and intercostal muscles

Question 18

Paresthesia

Answer 18

Sensation of tingling, crawling, or burning of the skin

Question 19

Peripheral neuropathy

Answer 19

Term used to describe damage to the peripheral nerves

Question 20

Plexus

Answer 20

A network of spinal nerves

Question 21

Receptors

Answer 21

Sensory nerves that receive a stimulus and transmit it to the central nervous system

Question 22

Sciatica

Answer 22

Neuritis of the sciatic nerve

Question 23

Reflex

Answer 23

Involuntary action, automatic response

Question 24

Radial nerve

Answer 24

Nerve found in the brachial plexus that stimulates the wrist and hand

Question 25

Sciatic nerve

Answer 25

Largest nerve in the body, originates in the sacral plexus and runs through the pelvis and down the leg

Question 26

Sensory nerve (afferent nerve)

Answer 26

Nerve fibers that carry messages from the sense organs to the brain and spinal cord

Question 27

Trigeminal neuralgia

Answer 27

Painful condition affecting the fifth cranial nerve, also known as tic douloureux

Question 28

Sympathetic system

Answer 28

Division of autonomic nervous system

Question 29

Stimulus

Answer 29

Any change in the environment

Question 30

Spinal nerves

Answer 30

31 pairs, they originate in the spinal cord

Question 31

Somatic nervous system

Answer 31

A division of the peripheral nervous system, it conducts impulses from the brain and spinal cord to the skeletal muscles, thereby causing responses to changes in our external environment