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What is a ganglion

Collection of neuron cell bodies outside CNS

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What does motor innervation do?

Sends instructions from the CNS to the muscles and glands

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What does sensory innervation do?

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<p>What neuron is this</p>

What neuron is this

Motor

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<p>What neuron is this</p>

What neuron is this

Sensory

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What is a neuron

Entire nerve cell

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What is a nerve

Bundle of axons that have left the CNS to join the PNS

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<p>What is yellow</p>

What is yellow

Sensory neuron

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<p>What is pink</p>

What is pink

Motor neuron

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What does somatic innervation concern?

Body wall (skeletal muscle and skin)

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What does visceral innervation concern?

Internal organs (heart)

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How many neurons connect the CNS to the target muscle

1

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How many neurons connects the site of stimulus to CNS for somatic sensory innervation?

One

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<p>1</p>

1

Prechordal mesoderm

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<p>2</p>

2

Lateral plate mesoderm

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<p>3</p>

3

Intermediate mesoderm

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<p>4</p>

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Paraxial mesoderm

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<p>5</p>

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Notochord

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What does the paraxial mesoderm give rise to?

Bone, skeletal muscle of the trunk, and overlaying dermis

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<p>1</p>

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Somites

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<p>2</p>

2

Paraxial mesoderm

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<p>3</p>

3

Prechordal mesoderm

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What is the prechordal mesoderm limited to?

Head and neck

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How many pairs of somites are there

37

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How many pairs of somites are occipital

4

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How many pairs of somites are cervical

8

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How many pairs of somites are thoracic

12

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How many pairs of somites are lumbar

5

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How many pairs of somites are sacral

5

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How many pairs of somites are coccygeal

3

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What does the somite turn into first

Dermanmyotome and sclerotome

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What does somite turn into second

Expaxial dermamytome, hypaxial dermamyotome, sclerotome

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What gives rise to Expaxial dermamytome and hypaxial dermamyotome,

Dermamyotome

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What kind of muscles does the epaxial dermamyotome give rise to?

Deep back muscles and the dermis that covers them

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What does the hypaxial dermamyotome give rise to?

All other skeltal myscle and dermis below the neck

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Why do epaxial and hypaxial dermamyotomes have seperate supplies?

Thoracolumbar fascia

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How many cervical

8

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How many thoracic

12

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How many lumbar

12

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How many sacral

5

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How many coccygeal

1

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What vertbrae are dermatome only?

Co1 and S5

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What spinal nerves have parasympathetic axons?

S2-S4

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<p>1</p>

1

Epaxial Dermatome

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<p>2</p>

2

Dorsal ramus

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<p>3</p>

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Dorsal root ganglion

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<p>4</p>

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Dorsal horn

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Dorsal horn

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Spinal cord gray matter

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Ventral horn

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Ventral root

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Ventral ramus

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<p>Blank yellow box</p>

Blank yellow box

Hypaxial dermamyotome

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Which root do motor pathways go through?

Ventral root

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Which root does sensory go through

Dorsal

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What are roots made up of?

Either sensory or motor

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What are rami made up of?

Mixture of sensory and motor

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Where are cell bodies located?

Ventral horn of spinal cord gray matter

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How many neurons connect the CNS to the target tissue for visceral motor innervation

Two

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What are visceral structures in the body wall?

Sweat glands, arrector pili, smooth muscle in skin and vessel walls

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What are the the components of visceral innervation

Sympathetic, parasympathetic, enteric innervation

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What are the exceptions to the rule that nearly all the of the visceral r=structures on the body receieve sympathetic innervation only

External genitalia

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Where are preganglionic cell bodies for sympathetics?

T1-L2 only

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Where is the location for preganglionic cell bodies for parasympathetics?

Brain or in the S2-S4 levels of the spinal cord

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Where are preganglionic cell bodies?

Lateral horn of spinal cord gray matter

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Where do preganglionic axons exit the spinal cord?

Ventral root

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Where are postganglionic cell bodies found?

Paravertebral ganglia

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How do the preganglionic axons reach the postganglionic?

White rami communicantes

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Where does the synapse between pre and post ganglionic occur?

Paravertebral ganglion

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How do post ganglionic axons return to the ventral ramus?

Gray rami communicantes

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What are gray rami only used for?

To return to the body wall

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How are 14 spinal cord levels (T1-L2) able to supply sweat glands for 31

dermatomes?

The sympathetic trunk is used as a pathway that lets levels T1-L2 share their preganglionic axons with somites at every level.