Exam 2 Practice Exam

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What type of muscle makes up the walls of hollow organs such as the stomach and uterus?
smooth muscle
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The sternocleidomastoid flex the neck, and the splenius capitus muscle extend it. What is the relationship between these muscles when bowing your head?
The sternocleidomastoid is the prime mover, and the splenuis capitus is the antagonist
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After someone faints, smelling salts of ammonia may be placed under the person's nose. The person breathes the ammonia vapors, which deliever a sharp jolt to the nasal membranes, and the person wakes up. This illustrates:
the function of sensory input to the reticular activating system
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Where are bipolar neurons found?
in sensory nerves
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From superficial to deep, the meninges occur:
dura mater, arachnoid mater, pia mater
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which types of neurons conduct impulses from the peripheral somatic sensory receptors to the brain stem or spinal cord
First order neurons
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Of the various types of skeletal muscle fibers, the type with the most mitochondria is
slow twitch oxidative fibers (not fast twitch glycolytic fibers)
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Commonly reffered to as the _____, this muscle group on the anterior thigh extends the knee
Quadriceps
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White matter represents
Myelanted axons traveling together in the CNS
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The eye serces as receptors for UV rays that affect our sleep cycle by sending impulses to inhibit the release of meletonin from the
epithalimus (pinneal gland)
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What is the order of a somatic reflex?
Somatic receptor - afferent nerve fiber - interneuron - efferent nerve fiber - skeletal muscle
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aging results in incrased amounts of connective tissue in skeletal muscles and a decrease in number of muscle fibers. This condition is called ____.
Sacropenia
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Most synapses transmit communication signals using
chemical signaling molecules-neurotransmitters
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The cerebellum
maintains normal muscle tone, posture and balance, and is the center of auditory and visual reflexes
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A dermatome is
the region of skin innervated by a single spinal nerve
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As the ___ nerve approaches the knee, it fivides into two brances, the fibular nerve and the tibial nerve
sciatic
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As skeletal muscles enlarge in a weight lifter, all of the following occur except
muscle cells divide mitotically
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The biceps brachii has this fascicle arrangement, which maximizes the range of motion possible
bipennate
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regeneration of peropheral axons requires
formation of a tube bu schwann cells to guide growth
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Cerebrial spinal fluid is produced by ___ and it ___
choroid plexus in the ventricles; carries oxygen and glucose to neurons and glia
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your patient is experiencing pain radiating from the left shoulder down the arm. He is most likely having refered pain from this:
a heart attack
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The hamstrings are made up of:
biceps femoris, semimebranosus and semitendinosis
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Most tumors in the brain originate from
glial cells
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I can remember my 8th grade boyfriends name and the anme of English Leather cologne, becuase of the connections between the olfactory bulb and the:
limbic system
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The defecation and urination reflexes are integrated in the
The cerebral cortex
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What area is located in the precentral gyrus of the cerebral cortex?
primary motor cortex
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What region of the brain is associated with initiating voluntary movement?
basal nuclei (ganglia)
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In a subdural hematoma resulting from a blow to the head, blood accumulated between the
Dura mater and arachnoid mater
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The rotator cuff is made up of the supraspinatus, infraspinatusm subscapularus and ___.
Teres minor
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The deltoud is a prime mover of the arm that acts in
extension
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The corpus callosum is usualt smaller in males, allowing them to be better multitaskers (T or F)
false
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the attachment of muscle tendon to stationary bone is called the insertion, adn attachment of other muscle tendon to moveable bone is called the origin.
false (insertion always moves towards the origin)
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The pirigormis muscle is a deep butt muscle that can cause irritation to the larger sciatic nerve
true
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Interneurons take in sensory information, direct it to specific CNS locations, and initiate the appropriate response
True
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The brainstem includes the medulla oblongata, pons, and midbrains
true
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The serratus anterior is used in punching
true
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descending nerves are motor nerves are efferent, ascending nerves are sensory nerves are afferent
true
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The levetor ani forms part of the pelvic diaphram and is a composite of three muscles: the iliococcygeus, the pubococcygues and the puborectalis
true
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The zygomaticus major raises the corner of the mouth and allowes smiling
true
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when flexing the anterior muscles of th eforeaerm, the signal comes down the cord. out spinal nerves C1-T1, into the cervical plexus and into the ulnar nerve
false (plexus and then spinal nerves)
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Epimysium
a later of connective tissue surrounding an entire muscle
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Myofibril
another name for a single muscle fiber or muscle cell
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Sarcomere
the contractile unit of the myofibril
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Titin
an elastic protein that helps with the spring elasticity of muscle
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Motor Unit
a motor nueron and all its associated muscle fibers that move in the same direction
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Prime mover of arm extension, adducts and medially rotates
Latissiumus Dorsi
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Flexes, adducts, and medially rotates arm at the shoulder
Pectoralis Major
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Flexes the forearm at eblow
brachialis
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flexes wrost and abducts the hand
Flexor carpi radialis
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Extends forarm at the elbow
triceps brachii
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nuring baby is using this muscle (succing)
buccinator
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Adducts the thigh
adductor magnus
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scapular retraction
rhomboid major/minor
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Moves eyeball superiorly and laterally
inferior oblique
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Match the follwing muscles with their functions
elevates mandible (biting)
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rotates, raisies and retracts the scapula
trapezius
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kisses
orbicularis oris
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pouting
platysma
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extend bertebral column
erector spinae
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rotates foraerm laterally
supinator
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flexes vertebral coumn
rectus abdominus
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elevates scapula (shrugs shoulders)
levetor scapula
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Paralysis would make an individuak unable to flex the thigh
iliopsoas
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bundle of intermediate filaments
neurofibril
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transmit nerve impuleses away from the cell body
axon
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axons of the PNS are surroinded by schwann cells and covered by this
endoneurium
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Formed by oligodendrocytes in the CNS
myelin
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Responds to kiss
Meissner's corpuscles
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receptors that respond to pain
nocireceptor
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Fast adapting receptors to strong pressure, joint movement pressure, joint movement
pacinian corpusle
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carries CSE from the third ventricle to the 4th ventricle
cerebral aqueduct
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consists of two cerebral hemispheres
cerebrum
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location of the consious mind
diencephelon
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Sorts incoming sensory informmation
cerebral cortex
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Surrounds the 3rd ventricle and contains the hypothalamus
thalamus
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Vital centers for breathing and heartbeat
medulla
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verbal, logical, analyitical, rational side of brain
left hemisphere
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fold of cerebrum
gyrus
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important for left-handed control
right hemisphere
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