Nervous System Quiz 620 (20 MCQs)

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1. 26 small bones that make up your backbone and protect your spinal cord
2. This is a hole on the microscope stage, through which the transmitted light from the source reaches the stage.
3. What is a dependent variable?
4. Which of the following is NOT a type of muscle?
5. 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
6. What does the voluntary nervous system control?
7. Which type of PNS neuroglial cells wrap a myelin sheath around the long axons of neurons?
8. What is the function of the Axon Terminal?
9. Thermoreceptors are sensitive to changes in what?
10. ..... are biochemical substances that are released into the synaptic cleft to stimulate or suppress other neurons.
11. Which part of the brain is responsible for perception of touch, pressure and pain?
12. Passes the signal to the brain and back.
13. What layer of skin senses pain?
14. What are strands of tough connective tissue that connect skeletal muscles to bones?
15. Unilateral paralysis of the nerves that control the facial muscles, causing one side of the face to droop
16. The stomach does BOTH mechanical and chemical digestion.
17. A change or signal that makes an organism react is called a
18. A person with damage to the cerebellum will like have trouble with which sense?
19. Glial cells that wrap around nerve fibers and produce a fatty insulating material called myelin
20. Your nails grow from a .....