The ANS

Question 1

What ganglionic nurons are unmylinated

Answer 1

Postganglionic

Question 2

What neurotransmitters do postganglionic use?

Answer 2

Either acytalcholine or adrenaline (aka epinephrine)

Question 3

What neurotransmitter does preganglionic nurons use

Answer 3

Just acytacholine

Question 4

Parasympathetic fibers arise from

Answer 4

Cranial and sacral regions

Question 5

Sympathetic fibers arise from

Answer 5

Thoracic and lumbar regions

Question 6

Length of parasympathetic fibers

Answer 6

Long preganglionic

short postganglionic

Question 7

Length of sympathetic fibers

Answer 7

Short preganglionic

Long postganglionic

Question 8

Parasympathetic location

Answer 8

In the visceral effector organ or near it

Question 9

Sympathetic location

Answer 9

Near the spinal cord in a chain of ganglia called the sympathetic trunk

Question 10

Parasympathetic uses what neurotransmitter

Answer 10

Uses acetylcholine at both synapses

Question 11

Sympathetic uses what neurotransmitters

Answer 11

Uses acetylcholine at first synaps
And epinephrine or
nuroepinephrin at the second synapse

Question 12

What are the Cranial outflow of nerves from the PNS

Answer 12

Oculomotor nerve (3)

Facial nerve (7)

Glossopharyngeal nerve (9)

Vagus nerve (10)

Question 13

The Autonomic nervous system controls what

Answer 13

Regulates involuntary physiological processes such as breathing and digestion

Question 14

Ganglion

Answer 14

Cluster of cell bodies in PNS

Allows a synapse partway through a pathway

Question 15

Basal nuclei

Answer 15

Islands of grey matter located within the white matter of cerebrum

Question 16

Thalmus

Answer 16

Forms superiolateral walls of the third ventricle

Contains relay and processing centers for sensory information

Question 17

Hypothalamus

Answer 17

Forms inferolateral walls of 3rd ventrical.

Autonomical control center

Temprature regulation

Question 18

Epithalmus formes what

Answer 18

Forms roof of third ventricle

Contains much of the choroid plexus

Question 19

Superior colliculi in charge of

Answer 19

Visual reflexes

head eye coordination

Question 20

Inferior colliculi in charge of

Answer 20

Auditory and startal reflexes

Question 21

What is the terminal filum

Answer 21

Strand of fibrous tissue that extends from the conus medullaris to the 2nd sacral vertebra

Provides longitudinal support

Question 22

Grey ramus

Answer 22

carries unmylonated post ganglionic fibers from a sympathetic gingleon to a spinal nerve

Question 23

White ramus

Answer 23

Carries preganglionic sympathetic fibers to the sympathetic chain

Question 24

Preganglionic are always

Answer 24

Mylinated

Question 25

Postganglionic are always

Answer 25

Unmylinated

Question 26

What ganglion use acetylcholine

Answer 26

All preganglionic sympathetic and parasympathetic nurons

All postganglionic parasympathetic neurons

Question 27

Cholinergic?

Answer 27

Relating to acetylcholine

Question 28

2 types of cholinerginic receptors

Answer 28

1. Nicotinic
   Autonomic and neuromuscular junction
2. Muscarinic
   Cardiac and smooth muscle
   Glands

Question 29

What ganglion use norepinephrine

Answer 29

Most sympathetic postganglionic nurons

Question 30

Neurons that secrete nuroepenephrin are called

Answer 30

Adrenergic

Question 31

Andergenic =

Answer 31

Respond to norepinephrine or epinephrine

Question 32

2 types of andregens

Answer 32

Alpha

Beta

Question 33

Communicating rami do what

Answer 33

Connect the sympathetic chain to the anterior ramus

Question 34

What ramus innervates the local muscles joints and skin of the back

Answer 34

Posterior

Question 35

What are the nerve plexuses of the body

Answer 35

Sacral
Lumbar
Cervical

Question 36

What does the communicating rami connect the anterior rami to?

Answer 36

The sympathetic chain

Question 37

Decussation is

Answer 37

Crossing of nerves

Question 38

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Question 39

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