Exam 13: The Peripheral Nervous System and Reflex Activity

Complex motor behavior such as walking depends on _ patterns.

The perineurium defines the boundary of a .

Pressure,pain,and temperature receptors in the skin are .

What structure regulates the amount of light passing to the visual receptors of the eye?

Distinguish between monosynaptic and polysynaptic reflexes and between ipsilateral and contralateral reflex responses.

As sound levels increase in the spiral organ of Corti),.

A fracture of the ethmoid bone could result in damage to which cranial nerve?

How does accommodation of muscle spindles figure in the importance of stretch routines as a warm- up for exercise?

Farsightedness is more properly called _ .

Trace the pathway of sound as it enters the external ear until it is perceived in the brain.

The rocks found in one's head calcium carbonate crystals)are called .

When we hear a strange sound in a room,which aspect of sensory perception is activated?

In the optic the visual fields of the axons are all ipsilateral.

The posterior side of the thigh,leg,and foot is served by the nerve.

Ordinarily,it is not possible to transplant tissues from one person to another,yet corneas can be transplanted without tissue rejection.This is because the cornea .

The first "way station" in the visual pathway from the eye,after there has been partial crossover of the fibers in the optic chiasma,is the .

The cranial nerve with a dual origin brain and spinal cord)is the .

The are in the visual pathway and mediate the pupillary light reflexes.

How is a receptor potential similar to an excitatory postsynaptic potential EPSP)generated at a synapse?

Name an exteroceptor that is not a cutaneous receptor and explain why.