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Nervous System Quiz 195 (60 MCQs)

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1. Cerebrospinal fluid is formed and circulated by the:
2. What is the major control center of the body?
3. What happens in the synaptic space between two neurons?
4. The plasma membrane at rest
5. What happens when an action potential reaches the end of a neuron?
6. This part of brain connects to two hemispheres.
7. The switching and relay center for the brain is the .....
8. A neuron that relays the impulse
9. This controls the movement of the lips and tongue and thus controls speech.
10. In the lacrimal apparatus, tears are produced in the lacrimal gland, then travel across the ..... towards the ..... commissure before emptying into the nasolacrimal duct.
11. A nerve that consists of motor neuron axons
12. This structure of the dentrite joins the cell body and the axon.
13. The ..... nervous system is made up of all the nerves that carry messages to and from the central nervous system.
14. The ..... nervous system receives information from sense organs and analyzes that information.
15. Lines the interior of the eye posterior to the ciliary body. It is the innermost layer of the eye's wall.
16. (Identify the type of muscle contraction described below as eccentric, concentric, both, or none. Answers may be used more than once.)Muscle contraction slows the pull of gravity on the body segment is
17. Receives stimuli from sense organs Relay impulses from senses to spinal cord and to brain
18. What is the correct definition for Tactile Stimulus?
19. Neurons that have several dendrites and one long axon are called
20. Which body system contains networks of cells that produce and receive information shared between an organism and its environment?
21. What part of the brain coordinates movement?
22. If you were scheduled to have a LP, what would you expect?
23. 1) The nervous system is structurally subdivided into two systems: ..... nervous system and ..... nervous system.
24. The correct path of food through the digestive system is:mouth-esophagus-stomach-small intestine-large intestine.
25. Ability to respond to a stimulus and convert it into a nerve impulse
26. To clasp or join, functional junction formed by a synaptic cleft
27. What cerebrum hemisphere lobe is concerned with movement and speech?
28. Our five sense organs help us to connect with the outside world
29. The autonomic nervous system has two parts:the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system.
30. Painful or difficult movement
31. Vision and speech
32. Evelyn, Liam, and Anika are playing a game of 'Neuro Trivia'. They are stuck on a question and need your help. The question is:What does a neuron do?
33. What are specialized nerve endings that detect change inside and outside the body?
34. What two things does the Central Nervous system consist of?
35. The Myelin Sheath is composed of a specialized cell type called .....
36. The ..... nervous system regulates activities that are automatic, or involuntary.
37. Which lobe deals with vision?
38. The diagram shows some bones and muscles in a leg of a human. What happens to muscle Y and to the leg at joint Z, when muscle X contracts?
39. A drug that activates a receptor.
40. 26 small bones that make up your backbone and protect your spinal cord
41. This is a hole on the microscope stage, through which the transmitted light from the source reaches the stage.
42. What is a dependent variable?
43. Which of the following is NOT a type of muscle?
44. A 5-year-old boy presented with severe headache, fever, and vomiting following a persistent middle ear infection. A diagnosis of severe otitis media with acute mastoiditis was made. MRI result showed right cerebral abscess.The MOST likely region of the cerebrum of this patient where the abscess is located is
45. What does the voluntary nervous system control?
46. Which type of PNS neuroglial cells wrap a myelin sheath around the long axons of neurons?
47. What is the function of the Axon Terminal?
48. Thermoreceptors are sensitive to changes in what?
49. ..... are biochemical substances that are released into the synaptic cleft to stimulate or suppress other neurons.
50. Which part of the brain is responsible for perception of touch, pressure and pain?
51. Passes the signal to the brain and back.
52. What layer of skin senses pain?
53. What are strands of tough connective tissue that connect skeletal muscles to bones?
54. Unilateral paralysis of the nerves that control the facial muscles, causing one side of the face to droop
55. The stomach does BOTH mechanical and chemical digestion.
56. A change or signal that makes an organism react is called a
57. A person with damage to the cerebellum will like have trouble with which sense?
58. Glial cells that wrap around nerve fibers and produce a fatty insulating material called myelin
59. Your nails grow from a .....
60. Which number represents the spinal cord?
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