Nervous System Quiz 544 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the English Meaning of the Medical Term Syn (SYN)?

Correct Answer: E) Union, Together, Joined.

2. What is the name for the receptors that detect a change in osmotic pressure

Correct Answer: D) Osmoreceptors.

3. It's a center for coordinating many reflexes and contains reflex arcs that can independently control reflexes.

Correct Answer: B) The spinal cord.

4. Which part of the bone makes red blood cells?

Correct Answer: B) Marrow.

5. Death of brain tissue that occurs when an arterial blockage or arterial rupture prevents blood flow to the brain; also called a stroke

Correct Answer: C) Cerebrovascular accident (CVA).

6. A group of nerve cells together creates

Correct Answer: B) A tissue.

7. What is the another name of nerve impulse?

Correct Answer: A) Action potential.

8. The system that works to maintain our normal or baseline information

Correct Answer: B) Parasympathetic.

9. Most anterior part of the cerebrum, this controls voluntary muscle movement, and higher cognitive functions like planning and social inhibitions:

Correct Answer: B) Frontal lobe.

10. What is the object that holds the fluid of the ear and helps us maintain our balance

Correct Answer: A) Semicircular Canals.

11. What is the function of a microglial cell?

Correct Answer: A) Digest debris or bacteria.

12. What is the nervous systems function?

Correct Answer: B) Nerves and cells that carry messages to and from the brain and spinal cord to many parts of the body.

13. Fight or flight neurotransmitter

Correct Answer: A) Epinephrine.

14. The role of the digestive system is .....

Correct Answer: A) To break down starch into glucose and protein into amino acids.

15. A larger axon transmits an impulse ..... than a smaller axon.

Correct Answer: A) Faster.

16. What does the Myelin Sheath protect?

Correct Answer: A) Axon.

17. These nervous cells help to support our system via protection and cushioning of neuron cell bodies.

Correct Answer: B) Satellite.

18. Sleeping and waking

Correct Answer: B) Brain stem.

19. Diseases and disorders of the nervous system can be causedby infection, injury or degeneration of the body parts due to aging.

Correct Answer: A) TRUE.

20. A weakened or dead virus can act as a:

Correct Answer: C) Vaccine.