Deck 15: Autonomic Nervous System

Question 1

What are the two motor components of the peripheral nervous system?

Answer 1

Autonomic and somatic nervous systems

Question 2

Involuntary movement of which type of visceral structures is controlled by the autonomic nervous system?

Answer 2

Smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, glands

Question 3

At what level of the spinal cord are sympathetic ganglia attached to both gray and white communicating rami?

Answer 3

T1-L2

Question 4

What muscle separates the viscera of the thorax and abdomen?

Question 5

The autonomic nervous system controls actions such as heart rate, digestion, and perspiration.

Question 6

The autonomic nervous system requires only one neuron to carry information to the target tissue.

Question 7

The intermediolateral cell column is the location for all preganglionic sympathetic neurons.

Question 8

Sympathetic ganglia are attached to spinal nerves by white rami at all levels of the spinal cord.

Question 9

Nerve fibers traveling in visceral nerves are preganglionic sympathetic fibers.

Question 10

Nerve cell bodies of postganglionic nerve fibers of the autonomic nervous system are located in ____________________.

Question 11

The neurotransmitter released from presynaptic nerve fibers in both the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems is ____________________.

Question 12

Nerve fibers of the postganglionic sympathetic neuron secrete ____________________ in the synaptic space between the neuron and target tissue.

Question 13

The alternative name for the sympathetic nervous system is the ____________________ system.

Question 14

Postganglionic sympathetic nerve cell bodies are located in ____________________, attached to a spinal nerve.

Question 15

Preganglionic sympathetic fibers en route to the abdominal viscera exit the lateral ganglia via ____________________ nerves that traverse the diaphragm to synapse on neurons in collateral ganglia.

Question 16

Postganglionic sympathetic nerve fibers travel via ____________________ to reach their target organs.

Question 17

Nerve fibers from the postganglionic parasympathetic neuron secrete ____________________ in the synaptic space between the neuron and the target tissue.

Question 18

Postganglionic fibers exit lateral ganglia via ____________________ to innervate visceral organs of the thorax.

Question 19

The neurotransmitter released from the adrenal medulla during the "flight-or-fight" response is ____________________.

Question 20

What is the location of the preganglionic cell bodies for nerves of the sympathetic nervous system?

A) Dorsal horn
B) Intermediolateral cell column
C) Ventral horn
D) Sympathetic ganglia
E) Dorsal root ganglia

Question 21

Cells of the adrenal medulla have the same function as

A) postganglionic sympathetic nerve fibers.
B) collateral ganglia.
C) preganglionic sympathetic nerve fibers.
D) lateral ganglia.
E) dorsal root ganglia.

Question 22

Preganglionic sympathetic fibers that supply the smooth muscle of the body wall

A) can travel up and down the sympathetic trunk.
B) exit the medial side of thoracic ganglia.
C) course through the splanchnic nerves.
D) arise from the superior cervical ganglia.
E) travel in visceral nerves.

Question 23

What is an alternative term for ganglia of the sympathetic trunk? (Select all that apply.)

A) Prevertebral ganglia
B) Collateral ganglia
C) Lateral ganglia
D) Dorsal root ganglia
E) Vertebral ganglia

Question 24

What terms describe ganglia on the surface of the aorta that innervate the abdominal viscera? (Select all that apply.)

A) Prevertebral ganglia
B) Collateral ganglia
C) Lateral ganglia
D) Dorsal root ganglia
E) Vertebral ganglia

Question 25

Postganglionic neurons of the sympathetic nervous system can be found in which of the following ganglia? (Select all that apply.)

A) Prevertebral ganglia
B) Collateral ganglia
C) Lateral ganglia
D) Dorsal root ganglia
E) Vertebral ganglia

Question 26

Preganglionic nerve fibers of the parasympathetic nervous system arise from nuclei in which of the following cranial nerves? (Select all that apply.)

A) Oculomotor
B) Trigeminal
C) Facial
D) Glossopharyngeal
E) Vagus

Question 27

Match the term with its correct description. There is only one correct answer.

-Collateral ganglia

A) Preganglionic neuron
B) Parasympathetic nervous system
C) Vertebral ganglia
D) Sympathetic trunk
E) Prevertebral ganglia
F) Autonomic nervous system
G) Postganglionic neuron
H) Somatic nervous system
I) Sympathetic nervous system
J) Spinal nerve

Question 28

Match the term with its correct description. There is only one correct answer.

-First neuron in the autonomic nervous system

A) Preganglionic neuron
B) Parasympathetic nervous system
C) Vertebral ganglia
D) Sympathetic trunk
E) Prevertebral ganglia
F) Autonomic nervous system
G) Postganglionic neuron
H) Somatic nervous system
I) Sympathetic nervous system
J) Spinal nerve

Question 29

Match the term with its correct description. There is only one correct answer.

-Craniosacral nervous system

A) Preganglionic neuron
B) Parasympathetic nervous system
C) Vertebral ganglia
D) Sympathetic trunk
E) Prevertebral ganglia
F) Autonomic nervous system
G) Postganglionic neuron
H) Somatic nervous system
I) Sympathetic nervous system
J) Spinal nerve

Question 30

Match the term with its correct description. There is only one correct answer.

-Neuron with cell bodies within a ganglion

A) Preganglionic neuron
B) Parasympathetic nervous system
C) Vertebral ganglia
D) Sympathetic trunk
E) Prevertebral ganglia
F) Autonomic nervous system
G) Postganglionic neuron
H) Somatic nervous system
I) Sympathetic nervous system
J) Spinal nerve

Question 31

Match the term with its correct description. There is only one correct answer.

-One neuron pathway

A) Preganglionic neuron
B) Parasympathetic nervous system
C) Vertebral ganglia
D) Sympathetic trunk
E) Prevertebral ganglia
F) Autonomic nervous system
G) Postganglionic neuron
H) Somatic nervous system
I) Sympathetic nervous system
J) Spinal nerve

Question 32

Match the term with its correct description. There is only one correct answer.

-Lateral ganglia

A) Preganglionic neuron
B) Parasympathetic nervous system
C) Vertebral ganglia
D) Sympathetic trunk
E) Prevertebral ganglia
F) Autonomic nervous system
G) Postganglionic neuron
H) Somatic nervous system
I) Sympathetic nervous system
J) Spinal nerve

Question 33

Match the term with its correct description. There is only one correct answer.

-Thoracolumbar nervous system

A) Preganglionic neuron
B) Parasympathetic nervous system
C) Vertebral ganglia
D) Sympathetic trunk
E) Prevertebral ganglia
F) Autonomic nervous system
G) Postganglionic neuron
H) Somatic nervous system
I) Sympathetic nervous system
J) Spinal nerve