Nervous System

Question 1

What cells make up nervous tissue?

Answer 1

Neurons

Question 2

What do Afferent nerve fibres do?

Answer 2

receive information from the PNS and take it to the CNS

Question 3

What do Efferent nerve fibres do?

Answer 3

sned information from the CNS to the PNS

Question 4

What does CNS stand for?

Answer 4

central nervous system

Question 5

What does PNS stand for?

Answer 5

Peripheral nervous system

Question 6

What makes up the central nervous system?

Answer 6

Brain and spinal chord

Question 7

what makes up he peripheral nervous system?

Answer 7

cranial nerves and spinal nerves

Question 8

What is the caudal equine?

Answer 8

where the spinal chord terminates at the last few vertebra

Question 9

What is the name of the place that the spinal chord terminates in the last few vertebra?

Answer 9

Caudal equine

Question 10

What do somatic nervers do?

Answer 10

serve voluntary parts of the body

Question 11

What do visceral nerves do?

Answer 11

serve involuntary parts of the body

Question 12

Which nerves serve voluntary parts of the body?

Answer 12

Somatic nerves

Question 13

Which nerves serve involuntary parts of the body?

Answer 13

visceral nerves

Question 14

What is grey matter?

Answer 14

the term used to describe the appearance of cell bodies

Question 15

What is white matter?

Answer 15

the term used to describe the appearance of axions or fibres

Question 16

What is a reflex action?

Answer 16

a response to the stimulus that doesn’t have to be learned

Question 17

What is the name of cells produced in the myelin sheath?

Answer 17

Schwann Cells

Question 18

What are Schwann Cells?

Answer 18

Cells that are produced in the myelin sheath

Question 19

What are short projections that receive impulses called?

Answer 19

Dendrites

Question 20

What are Dendrites?

Answer 20

Short projections that receive impulses

Question 21

What are the gaps in the myelin sheath called?

Answer 21

Nodes of ranvier

Question 22

What are the nodes of ranvier?

Answer 22

Gaps in the myelin sheath

Question 23

What is the function of the nodes of ranvier?

Answer 23

Allow the passage of oxygen and nutrients

Question 24

What is the name of the membrane surrounding the nerve cell?

Answer 24

Neurioemma

Question 25

What is the Neurioemma?

Answer 25

The membrane surrounding the nerve

Question 26

What is the name of the space between two nerve cells?

Answer 26

Synapse

Question 27

What is a synapse?

Answer 27

The space between two nerve cells

Question 28

What is the name of the junction between a neuron and a muscle fibre?

Answer 28

the neuromuscular junction

Question 29

What is the neuromuscular junction?

Answer 29

the space between a neuron and a muscle fibre

Question 30

What is a neurotransmitter?

Answer 30

a chemical that allows the transmission of nerve impulses

Question 31

What is a ganglion?

Answer 31

a group of cell bodies found in the PNS

Question 32

What does the autonomic nervous system consist of?

Answer 32

consists of spinal nerves that supply motor fibres to the visceral motor system. It is self governing (not under conscious control)

Question 33

What does the sympathetic system do?

Answer 33

Prepares the body of stressful or hazardous situations

Question 34

What is the autonomic nervous system?

Answer 34

The part of the nervous system responsible for control of the bodily functions not consciously directed, such as breathing, the heartbeat, and digestive process

Question 35

What is the sympathetic nervous system?

Answer 35

part of the autonomic nervous system (ANS), which also includes the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS). The sympathetic nervous system activates what is often termed the fight or flight response

Question 36

What are somatic nerves?

Answer 36

nerves that serve voluntary parts of the body

Question 37

What are visceral nerves?

Answer 37

nerves that serve involuntary parts of the body

Question 38

what is the Parasympathetic nervous system?

Answer 38

relating to the part of the autonomic nervous system which balances the action of the sympathetic nerves. It consists of nerves arising from the brain and the lower end of the spinal cord and supplying the internal organs, blood vessels, and glands.

Question 39

What is a Motor Nerve?

Answer 39

A nerve carrying impulses from the brain or spinal chord to a muscle or gland

Question 40

What is a sensory nerve?

Answer 40

also called an afferent nerve, is a nerve that carries sensory information toward the central nervous system

Question 41

What is an axon?

Answer 41

one long process on the neuron that carries nerve impulses away from the cell body.

Question 42

What is the name of the point at which the axon leaves the cell?

Answer 42

Axon hillock