Ecpi Unit 4 Exam UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers

Ecpi Unit 4 Exam UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Part of the nervous system that carries signals to smooth muscles and glands - CORRECT
ANSWER - Autonomic motor division


Part of the nervous system that carries signals from sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord
- CORRECT ANSWER - Sensory division


The subcategory of that efferent peripheral nervous system that conducts impulses from the brain
and spinal cord to skeletal muscles causing us to respond to change in the environment is known
as the - CORRECT ANSWER - Somatic nervous system


The neuroglial cells that can phagocytize bacterial cells and increase when there is inflammation
of the brain or spinal cord are called - CORRECT ANSWER - Microglia



The peripheral nervous system consists of - CORRECT ANSWER - cranial nerves and
spinal nerves


The part of the nerve cell that transmits impulses away from the cell body is the - CORRECT
ANSWER - Axon


Type of impulse conduction where the action potential appears to jump from one node of
Ranvier to the next: - CORRECT ANSWER - saltatory conduction


What can be defined as

"gaps in the myelin sheath between the Schwann cells" ? - CORRECT ANSWER - Nodes
of Ranvier


Neuroglia that forms myelin in the central nervous system (CNS): - CORRECT
ANSWER - Oligodendrocyetes