Nervous system

frontal lobe

A stroke in the primary motor area has caused Don to lose control over his skeletal muscles on the right side of his body. What lobe of his brain was damaged?

Motor (efferent) division

Functional nervous system division that carries information from the central nervous system toward effectors

Sensory (afferent) division

Functional nervous system subdivision that carries information toward the central nervous system from receptors

has a chain of two motor neurons

In contrast to the somatic nervous system, the autonomic nervous system ________.

Peripheral nervous system (PNS)

Structural nervous system subdivision that consists of spinal nerves and cranial nerves

Central nervous system (CNS)

Structural nervous system subdivision that consists of the brain and spinal cord

Autonomic nervous system (ANS

Subdivision of the motor division responsible for controlling involuntary events

central; peripheral

The nervous system is structurally subdivided into two systems: ________ nervous system and ________ nervous system.

T

The parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems are subdivisions of the autonomic nervous system.

axon

The part of the neuron that typically conducts nerve impulses away from the cell body is the ________.

epineurium, perineurium, endoneurium

Which one of the following is the correct sequence in connective tissue sheaths, going from outermost to innermost layer?

cervical spinal nerves, thoracic spinal nerves, lumbar spinal nerves, sacral spinal nerves

Which one of the following is the correct sequence of nerves that exit the spinal cord, from superior to inferior?