BMS 300 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE FULL SOLUTION.pdf

BMS 300 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE FULL
SOLUTION

●● sensory input
Answer: incoming information from the body or external environment


●● integration
Answer: the process of interpreting and selecting of response to a stimuli
that occurs only in the central nervous system


●● response
Answer: the outcome of integration elicited by the peripheral nervous
system that occurs by activating an effect organ


●● central nervous system
Answer: nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord


●● peripheral nervous system
Answer: nervous system consisting of all nerves outside the brain and
spinal cord

,●● nerves (in PNS)
Answer: a bundle of nerve cell processes in PNS


●● tracts
Answer: a bundle of axons in the white matter of the spinal cord that
have specific destinations


●● sensory input
Answer: the afferent part of the PNS that carries information towards the
CNS


●● somatic afferents
Answer: sensory neurons of the PNS that carry information about the
skin, skeletal muscles, and joints


●● visceral afferents
Answer: sensory neurons of the PNS that carry information about the
body's organs


●● afferents
Answer: nerves that carry information towards the CNS

, ●● efferents
Answer: nerves that carry information away from the CNS


●● motor output
Answer: the efferent part of the PNS that carries information away from
the CNS and elicits a response


●● somatic nervous system
Answer: a subdivision of the PNS motor output that uses motor neurons
to activate skeletal muscles


●● voluntary nervous system
Answer: somatic nervous system


●● autonomic nervous system
Answer: a subdivision of the PNS motor output that regulates organ
activity and bodily fluids


●● involuntary nervous system
Answer: autonomic nervous system


●● sympathetic nervous system