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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT NERVOUS
SYSTEMMARIEB EXAM QUESTIONS
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-Guarantee passing score -177 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: process by which ATP is used to move sodium ions out of the cell and potassium ions back into the cell, completely restores the resting conditions of the neurons
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sodium potassium pump
Question 2: location of the nucleus
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cell body Question 3: sensory receptors found in the skin, which are specialized to detect temperature, pressure changes, and pain
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cutaneous sense organs Question 4: reflexes that regulate such body functions as digestion, eliminationm, blood pressure, and sweating
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automonic reflexes
Question 5: why is a brain tumor more likely to be formed from glial cells than from neurons
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glia cells can divide and neurons cannot. a criterion of cancer cells is their unconrolled division
Question 6: electrical condition of the plasma membrane of a resting neuron
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polarized
Question 7: conducts electrical currents toward the cell body
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dendrite Question 8: glia that wrap their flat extensions tightly around the nerve fibbers, producing fatty insulating coverings called myelin sheaths
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oligodendrocytes Question 9: all have a cell body, which contains the nucleus and is the metabolic center of the cell, and one or more slender processes extedning from the cell body that can transmit messages from one body to another
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neurons or nerve cells
Question 10: releases neuotransmitters and are amitotic
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neurons
Question 11: total nonreponsiveness to stimulation
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coma Question 12: nervous system subdivision that is composed of the cranial and spinal nerves and ganglia
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periphereal nervous system
Question 13: innermost coevering of the brain; delicate and vascular
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pia mater
Question 14: fibers that run from the midnbrain to the eye
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oculomotor III Question 15: what system along with the nervous system helps to regulate and maintain body homeostasis, it produces hormones that are released into the blood.
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endocrine system Question 16: important relay station for afferent fibers traveling to the senosry cortex for interpretation (whethe the sensation we are about to have is pleasant or unpleasant.
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thalamus
Question 17: how many pairs of spinal nerses arise from the cord
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31 Question 18: forms the roof of the third ventricle, important parts are the pineal body, and the choriod plexus
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epithalamus Question 19: demonstrates irritability and conductivity, and thus transmit electrical messages from one area of the body to another area
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neurons Question 20: state in which the resting potential is reversed as sodium ions rush into the neuron
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depolarization
Question 21: what brain region controls such as vital activites as breathing and blood pressure
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brain stem Question 22: major subdivision of the nervous system that serves as communication lines, linking all parts of the body to the cns.
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cranial nerves Question 23: what name is gibven to the barrier that protects the brain from toxic chemicals
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blood brain barrier Question 24: neuron that conducts impulses away from the CNS to muscles and glands
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efferent neuron
Question 25: connects the third and fourth ventricles
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cerebral aqueaduct Question 26: what keeps the cns contantly informed of events going on both inside and outside the body
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sensory division
Question 27: bundle of nerve processes inside the CNS
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tract
Question 28: beta waves are recorded when an individual is awake and
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alert