DAA FINAL EXAM REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
The first branch off of the aorta is the _______? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Coronary Arteries
The mitral valve is also called the ________? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅bicuspid, left a/v valve
The external iliac artery becomes the ___ artery once it passes inferior to the inguinal ligament. -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Femoral
The vertebral arteries unite on the ventral aspect of the brain stem to become the _______? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Basilar
Blood from the right ventricle flows directly into the _______? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Pulmonary
Trunk
How would neurons which release and receptors, which respond to norepinephrine and/or epinephrine,
be classified? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Adrenergic
What effect does stimulation of muscarinic receptors have on the heart? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Slow down
What effect would a muscarinic blocker, like atropine, have upon heart rate, pupillary diameter, gut
motility, GIT secretions, and bronchial secretions? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Speed up, dialate, slow
down, shuts off, decrease sweating
Parasympathetic fibers supplying the upper limbs are carried in which nerve fibers? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅None
Which actions are seen with effects seen by the sympathetic nervous system? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Mydriasis, increased heart rate and force of contraction, dilation of coronary blood
vessels, elevation of blood glucose, bronchodialation, increase blood flow to skeletal muscle (dilate
blood vessels), cutaneous vasoconstriction, constriction of blood vessels in digestive organs, increased
breakdown of stored fats, piloerection, diaphoresis, ejaculation, immune effects
, The human heart has ___ chambers - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅4
What tissue releases epinephrine? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅adrenal medulla
Where, specifically, are the preganglionic parasympathetic neuron cell bodies located in the CNS? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Brain stem and S2-4
Which cranial nerves transmit GVE fibers? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅CN 3, 7, 9, 10
Parasympathetic GVE fibers are carried in the ventral root of which of the following spinal nerves? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Not carried in ventral rami
Postganglionic neurons of the glossopharyngeal nerve innervate what structure and have what effect
upon these tissues? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Inferior salvatory nucleus, otic ganglia, parotid gland;
increase secretions
Where is the location of nicotinic receptors? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Postganglionic neurons,
adrenal medulla, skeletal muscle
Where is the location of muscarinic receptors? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Smooth muscle, cardiac
muscle, and glands
tissues
Which muscles extend the thigh? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Hamstrings mm, Piriformis, Gluteus
Maximus, Adductor Magnus
Which muscles flex the knee joint? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Sartorius, Semitendinous,
Semimembranous, Biceps Femoris (LH), Biceps Femoris (SH), Plantaris, Popliteus, Gracilis,
Gastrocnemius, Hamstrings mm
The first branch off of the aorta is the _______? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Coronary Arteries
The mitral valve is also called the ________? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅bicuspid, left a/v valve
The external iliac artery becomes the ___ artery once it passes inferior to the inguinal ligament. -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Femoral
The vertebral arteries unite on the ventral aspect of the brain stem to become the _______? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Basilar
Blood from the right ventricle flows directly into the _______? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Pulmonary
Trunk
How would neurons which release and receptors, which respond to norepinephrine and/or epinephrine,
be classified? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Adrenergic
What effect does stimulation of muscarinic receptors have on the heart? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Slow down
What effect would a muscarinic blocker, like atropine, have upon heart rate, pupillary diameter, gut
motility, GIT secretions, and bronchial secretions? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Speed up, dialate, slow
down, shuts off, decrease sweating
Parasympathetic fibers supplying the upper limbs are carried in which nerve fibers? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅None
Which actions are seen with effects seen by the sympathetic nervous system? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Mydriasis, increased heart rate and force of contraction, dilation of coronary blood
vessels, elevation of blood glucose, bronchodialation, increase blood flow to skeletal muscle (dilate
blood vessels), cutaneous vasoconstriction, constriction of blood vessels in digestive organs, increased
breakdown of stored fats, piloerection, diaphoresis, ejaculation, immune effects
, The human heart has ___ chambers - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅4
What tissue releases epinephrine? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅adrenal medulla
Where, specifically, are the preganglionic parasympathetic neuron cell bodies located in the CNS? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Brain stem and S2-4
Which cranial nerves transmit GVE fibers? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅CN 3, 7, 9, 10
Parasympathetic GVE fibers are carried in the ventral root of which of the following spinal nerves? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Not carried in ventral rami
Postganglionic neurons of the glossopharyngeal nerve innervate what structure and have what effect
upon these tissues? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Inferior salvatory nucleus, otic ganglia, parotid gland;
increase secretions
Where is the location of nicotinic receptors? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Postganglionic neurons,
adrenal medulla, skeletal muscle
Where is the location of muscarinic receptors? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Smooth muscle, cardiac
muscle, and glands
tissues
Which muscles extend the thigh? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Hamstrings mm, Piriformis, Gluteus
Maximus, Adductor Magnus
Which muscles flex the knee joint? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Sartorius, Semitendinous,
Semimembranous, Biceps Femoris (LH), Biceps Femoris (SH), Plantaris, Popliteus, Gracilis,
Gastrocnemius, Hamstrings mm
