Nervous System (Midterm)

Question 1

What is the tentorium

Answer 1

Separates the cerebrum and cerebellum

Made from thickening of the dura matter

Question 2

Superior sagittal sinus

Answer 2

Triangular shaped vein that runs along the top of your head

Question 3

What are dural sinuses?

Answer 3

Veins

Question 4

Hypothalamus

Answer 4

Links mind and body

Question 5

What do cerebellar impulses do?

Answer 5

Purposefulness, finesse, elegance to move, balance

Question 6

Where is the sneezing center

Answer 6

Brain stem

Question 7

How do neurons work to sneeze?

Answer 7

They act as accumulators

Question 8

Where can you fine an arborvitae?

Answer 8

Cerebellum

Question 9

What is the role of the ventral root?

Answer 9

Efferent

Question 10

What are the components of the brain stem?

Answer 10

Pons, medulla, oblongata, midbrain.

Question 11

Name of the dilation of the distal end of an axon

Answer 11

Synaptic node.

Question 12

What is the name of the hair like neurons?

Answer 12

Dendrites

Question 13

Myelin sheath gaps?

Answer 13

Nodes of ranvier

Question 14

Where do shwann cells belong?

Answer 14

Glial cells

Question 15

What do shwann cells make?

Answer 15

Myelin sheath

Question 16

What does the myelin sheath contain?

Answer 16

Myelin

Question 17

What kind of electrical conduction is performed by axons?

Answer 17

Salatory conduction

Question 18

What is the glial cell that carries on phagocytosis

Answer 18

Microglia

Question 19

What kind of blood cells are glial cells

Answer 19

Antigen presenting

Question 20

What is the role of oligodendrocytes

Answer 20

Provide support and insulation to the axons in the central nervous system of some vertebrates, equivalent to the function performed by the schwann cells in the peripheral nervous system

Question 21

What do ependymal cells do?

Answer 21

Reabsorb CSF