Nervous System Quiz 618 (20 MCQs)

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1. This part of brain connects to two hemispheres.
2. The switching and relay center for the brain is the .....
3. A neuron that relays the impulse
4. This controls the movement of the lips and tongue and thus controls speech.
5. In the lacrimal apparatus, tears are produced in the lacrimal gland, then travel across the ..... towards the ..... commissure before emptying into the nasolacrimal duct.
6. A nerve that consists of motor neuron axons
7. This structure of the dentrite joins the cell body and the axon.
8. The ..... nervous system is made up of all the nerves that carry messages to and from the central nervous system.
9. The ..... nervous system receives information from sense organs and analyzes that information.
10. Lines the interior of the eye posterior to the ciliary body. It is the innermost layer of the eye's wall.
11. (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
12. Receives stimuli from sense organs Relay impulses from senses to spinal cord and to brain
13. What is the correct definition for Tactile Stimulus?
14. Neurons that have several dendrites and one long axon are called
15. Which body system contains networks of cells that produce and receive information shared between an organism and its environment?
16. What part of the brain coordinates movement?
17. If you were scheduled to have a LP, what would you expect?
18. 1) The nervous system is structurally subdivided into two systems: ..... nervous system and ..... nervous system.
19. The correct path of food through the digestive system is:mouth-esophagus-stomach-small intestine-large intestine.
20. Ability to respond to a stimulus and convert it into a nerve impulse