ANPH 1001 The Final Exam Questions
with 100% Correct Answers
afferent or sensory - ✔✔Convey info from the receptors in the central
nervous system
Efferent peripheral system - ✔✔Convey info from the central nervous
system to muscle and glands
What is the Efferent system divided into? - ✔✔Somatic nervous system
and the autonomic nervous system
Somatic Nervous System - ✔✔Conducts impulse from the brain and the
spinal cord(CNS) to skeletal muscles- enable us to respond to outside
environment
autonomic nervous system - ✔✔Involuntary- conducts impulse from the
brain and the spinal cord to smooth muscles (e.g. intestines) cardiac
muscle, glands
What are the 2 divisions of the autonomic nervous system? - ✔✔1.
Sympathetic
2. parasympathetic
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nerve tissue - ✔✔Consists of grouping of nerve cells called neurons
- Neurons transmit nerve impulse in form of electrochemical changes
Nerve - ✔✔A bundle of nerve cells or fibers
Neuroglia (nerve glue) - ✔✔support and protect neurons; 60% of all brain
cells are neuroglia cells (do not conduct impulse)
Different types of neuroglia cells - ✔✔1. Astrocytes
2. Oligodendroglia
3. Microglia
4. Microglia
5. Ependymal
6. Schwann
Astrocytes - ✔✔Star shaped that wrap around nerve cells
Oligodendroglia - ✔✔Look like small osteocytes- Support forming semi rigid
connective tissue, myelin sheath, formations on neurones of brain and
Spinal cord
Microglia - ✔✔Small cells whose role is to engulf and destroy microbes and
cellular debris- phagocytes
Ependymal - ✔✔Line the fluid filled ventricles of the brain, Some produce
cerebrospinal fluid, some with cilia to move fluid