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
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