Nervous System Quiz 671 (20 MCQs)

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1. The gap between two neurons is called?

Correct Answer: C) Conclusion.

2. While checking in your patient at the doctor's office, you need to document your patient's Weight of 220. How would you do that?

Correct Answer: A) Wt. 220.

3. The sympathetic division is referred to as this term because its nerve fibers exit the spinal column in the chest and abdominal regions:

Correct Answer: A) Thoracolumbar.

4. Which part of the brain helps you keep your balance?

Correct Answer: A) Cerebellum.

5. Rapid change in polarity across the axon membrane as the nerve impulse occurs.

Correct Answer: A) Action potential.

6. Impulses can travel back and forth along the same neuron chain.

Correct Answer: B) False.

7. What is the procedural process of detecting and evaluating odorant molecules

Correct Answer: A) Smell.

8. Motor nerves are called

Correct Answer: D) They will bring.

9. A rare disease in the US that leads to paralysis is known as:

Correct Answer: C) Poliomyelitis.

10. Which part of the brain is responsible for reasoning and planning?

Correct Answer: C) Frontal lobe.

11. -inflammation of protective membrane covering the brain and spinal cord-can be caused by a bacteria, virus, or fungus.

Correct Answer: B) Meningitis.

12. This nerve carries messages from brain to muscles

Correct Answer: D) Motor nerve.

13. The left hemisphere controls the right side of the body, while the right hemisphere manages the left.

Correct Answer: A) TRUE.

14. What might happen in your hypothalamus was damaged?

Correct Answer: B) You'd keep eating and never feel full.

15. PERRLA

Correct Answer: A) Pupils equal, round, and reactive to light and accommodation.

16. These specialty cells are often called nerve cells

Correct Answer: A) Neurons.

17. The skeletal muscle are controlled by the ..... nervous system.

Correct Answer: A) Somatic.

18. What are a gyrus?

Correct Answer: A) A raised ridge in the folds of a brain.

19. What is found in the cerebral ventricles and serves as a liquid shock absorber for the brain?

Correct Answer: A) Cerebrospinal fluid.

20. The opening at the center of the eye (black in color) is called this.

Correct Answer: A) Pupil.