Global MCQ Practice

🌐 Total MCQ
🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books

Nervous System Quiz 197 (60 MCQs)

Quiz Instructions

Select an option to see the correct answer instantly.

1. Tiny fibers in your body that send signals back to the brain.
2. A nerve cell, including its processes, axons and dendrites.
3. TRUE/FALSE:motor cells are used when you feel the coldness of ice.
4. The time it takes for a neuron to reset is called the .....
5. The cerebrum is the largest structure in the brain
6. The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system work together to maintain a balanced state called?
7. A wave of electrical fluctuations that travels along the plasma membrane
8. Hemiparesis is paralysis on one side of the body:
9. What brain lobe allows you to take in visual information?
10. A part of the brain that is found below the cerebrum which is responsible for coordinating posture, balance and muscle movements.
11. The yellowish disc on the retina that contains the fovea centralis; The area of sharpest vision.
12. These three parts work together to make up the CNS. They are?
13. The field of science that focuses on the study of the nervous system is called
14. Our nervous system controls everything we do.
15. ..... are sensory receptors found on the human tongue.
16. Most of our senses are first collected in which of these structures before being sent to the lobes that process them?
17. In the contraction cycle, the step where the myosin head binds to the actin is called
18. What is a state of near-unconsciousness or insensibility?
19. How many neuroglia cells are in the PNS?
20. CNS composed a system outside of the brain and spinal cord.
21. Made up of the Brain and the Spinal Cord.
22. Which of the following is not one of the three main types of sampling
23. Which one is voluntary muscle?
24. Part of a neuron that contains the nucleus
25. Photoreceptors are
26. The neuron that transmits the impulse is called the .....
27. How could the strength of a nerve impulse which is generated by an action potential, send a bigger signal in an emergency?
28. Characterized by rapidly worsening muscle weakness that can lead to temporary paralysis. Also known as infectious polyneuritis.
29. Long extension of a neuron that carries nerve impulses away from the body of the cell
30. What is the purpose of the hypothalamus?
31. Returns the body to normal after the fight-or-flight response has occurred.
32. Which of the following is the role of the nervous system in the body?
33. A mixed nerve is one which
34. Which of the following is not a factor in speed of a nerve impulse transmission.
35. Neurons that only have one process are ..... ?
36. What does the root word macula-mean?
37. Part of ear concerned with hearing is
38. Identify parts of the EYE (red layer)
39. This division of the Nervous System relays information to internal organs.
40. The ..... nervous system only contains all the sensory neurons and the voluntary motor neurons.
41. The ions responsible for the process of blood clot
42. Unmyelinated nerve fibers are called white matter.
43. What is the usual resting membrane potential value?
44. Neural tissue cell that is primarily responsible for generating and propagating electrical signals into, within, and out of the nervous system.
45. There are ..... parts in human eye.
46. Which nerve carry messages from sense organs to your spinal cord and brain?
47. True or False. Chemical signals are used by the neurons to communicate with one another while electric signals are used to transmit signals within a neuron.
48. These nerves carry Impulse to the brain.
49. Peptides with inhibitory, opiate-like actions
50. The ..... is made up of the brain and spinal cored.
51. Hyperopia is NOT which of the following
52. An individual is referred to a neurologist because he is having difficulty moving his eyes horizontally to one side. The neurologist concludes that the individual has a vascular lesion. Which of the following structures were most likely affected by this lesion?
53. Which of the following is a function of the thalamus?
54. Which of the following describes the function of microglia cells?
55. The human ear receives sound waves as ..... and converts them to signals that are processed by the brain
56. If a person has an injury on the left side of his brain, what part of his/her body will be effected?
57. Sensory nerve of the face
58. From ankle to toe, what is the order of bones?
59. What is the English Meaning of the Medical Term Cerebr/o [ CEREBR/O ]?
60. Myelinate axons outside of the CNS. cells wrap themselves around the axon in a jelly-roll fashion.
🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books