Peripheral nervous system Flashcards

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What is the peripheral nervous system divided into?

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Somatic and autonomic nervous systems

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2
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Which neurones transmit information towards the CNS?

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Sensory afferent nerves

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3
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Which neurones transmit information away from the CNS?

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Motor efferent nerves

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4
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How many pairs of spinal nerves are there?

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31

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5
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What is a neural plexus?

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Derived from multiple spinal cord segments, and is an intricate network of nerves

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6
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Which layer sheaths the entire nerve?

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Epineurium

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7
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Which layer surrounds the bundles of nerve fibres?

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Perineurium

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8
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Which layer is intermediate of individual nerve fibres?

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Endoneurium

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9
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Which meningeal layer is continuous with the epineurium?

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Dura mater

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10
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Which two meningeal layers are continuous with the endoneurium and the perineurium?

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Pia mater and the arachnoid layer

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11
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What is a dermatome?

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An area of skin that is supplied by a single spinal nerve (strips of skin consists of a single nerve)

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12
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What is a myotome?

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Group of muscles innervated by a single spinal nerve

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13
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What nerves conduct sensory impulses from the viscera?

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Visceral afferent nerves

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14
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Do parasympathetic efferent nerves innervate the blood?

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No

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15
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Which structure contains multiple cell bodies existing outside the CNS?

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Ganglia

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16
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Which structure contains a collection of cell bodies inside the CNS?

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Nucleus

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17
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Where are afferent somatic and visceral fibre cell bodies?

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Reside within spinal ganglia

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18
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Which nerve fibres synapse with the peripheral ganglion?

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Peripheral nerves

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19
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How are peripheral nerves arranged?

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Bundled in fasiciuli, comprised of three connective tissue layres: (Epineurium, perineurium, and endoneurium)

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20
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Which layer sheaths individual fasicules?

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Perineurium

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21
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Which layer sheaths individual axons?

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Endoneurium

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22
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What two parameters are used to classify peripheral nerves?

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Based on conduction velocity

Based on axonal diameter

23
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What classification system is used to classify nerves based on conduction velocity?

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Letters (ABC)

A- fastest

24
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Which classification system is used to classify nerves based on axonal diameters?

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Roman numerals (I-IV)
1 fastest
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Which nerves are classified under the axonal diameter system?
Sensory nerves exclusively
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What effect does myelination have on conduction velocity?
Increases conduction velocity due to the principle of saltatory conduction
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What are exteroceptors
Detect pain, touch, pressure and temperature
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Which receptors detect movement and joint position?
Proprioceptors
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Which receptors detect the internal environment (Blood pH,and gastrointestinal movement)?
Interoceptors
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What are chemoreceptors?
Specialised sensory receptors transduce a chemical substance and subsequently generates an electrical signal
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Where are chemoreceptors located?
Medulla = environmental pH Peripheral= Aortic arch and carotid sinus Olfactory bulb
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Which receptors detect light in retina (rods and cones)?
Photoreceptors
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What are mechanoreceptors?
Detects opening of ion channels
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What are nociceptors?
Detects signals from damaged tissue or threat of damage indirectly respond to chemicals released from damage tissue
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Which proprioceptor in muscle detect changes in length?
Muscle spindles
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What happens during muscle stretch in terms of electrical transmission? (reflex)
Stimulates reflexively, a muscle contraction to counteract overstretching and muscle fibre damage (Myotatic reflex) Stretching causes the muscle fibre to transmit an electrical impulse to the spinal cord to stimulate a muscular response.
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What is the static component of myotatic reflex?
Persists during the time of muscular stretch
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What is the dynamic component of the myotatic reflex?
Lasts momentarily in response to the initial sudden increase in muscle length
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Which proprioceptor detects changes in tension in tendons?
Golgi tendon organs
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Which neurotransmitter is released at an inhibitory interneuron?
Glycine, hyperpolarises motor neurone, causes muscle to relax
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What is a neuromuscular junction?
Specialized synapse between a motor neuron and a muscle fibre Motor neurone axon approaches innervated muscle
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What is a motor unit?
Single motor neurone in conjunction with corresponding muscle fibres that it innervates. Smallest functional unit to produce force
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What is a motor pool?
Collection of motor neurones collectively coordinate together to stimulate contractions of a single muscle, all of the motor units within a muscle is considered as a motor pool.
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Where do sympathetic neurones arise?
Thoracolumbar
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What effects does sympathetic innervation have on the body?
Direct blood to muscles, dilation of pupils, increases respiratory rate, dilation of airways, increased heart rate
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What effect does parasympathetic innervation have?
Rest, increased gastric secretions decreased respiratory and heart rate
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Where do preganglionic efferent axons leave the spinal cord?
Through the ventral nerve roots joining the mixed spinal nerve
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How do preganglionic sympathetic fibres enter the sympathetic chain of ganglia?
Through the white ramus communicans
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What do paravertebral trunks contain?
Post-ganglionic neurone cell bodies
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Fibres concerned with innervation of structures in the head and thorax terminate where?
Terminate in synaptic contact with postganglionic celll bodies in the sympathetic chain
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Fibres concerned with innervation of structures of pelvic and abdominal viscera terminate where?
Pass uninterrupted through the sympathetic chain and travel to plexuses
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What does the mixed spinal nerve contain?
Mixed spinal nerve contains pre and post-ganglionic fibres. Synapse, postganglionic neurone can ascend or descend
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Where do postganglionic nerve fibres leave the sympathetic chan?
Gray ramus communicans
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Why is the gray ramus communicans gray?
Unmyelinated