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MED-SURG: Nervous System Questions and
Answers Latest Update
What are the key functions of the nervous system? Ans: Control of
mobility, sensation, cognition, and involuntary processes.
What is involved in the central nervous system? Ans: Brain
Spinal cord
What is involved in the peripheral nervous system? Ans: 12 cranial nerves
Spinal nerves
Autonomic nervous system
What are neurons? Ans: Cells that transmits impulses within nervous
system.
Either enhances or inhibits the impulse.
What are sensory (afferent) neurons? Ans: Control sensation and transmit
messages from peripheral nervous system to central nervous system.
What are motor (efferent) neurons? Ans: Control mobility and transmit
messages from central nervous system to peripheral nervous system.
What is the function of dendrites in a neuron? Ans: Receive information
from neurons and transmit message to soma.
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MED-SURG: Nervous System Questions and
Answers Latest Update
What are the key functions of the nervous system? Ans: Control of
mobility, sensation, cognition, and involuntary processes.
What is involved in the central nervous system? Ans: Brain
Spinal cord
What is involved in the peripheral nervous system? Ans: 12 cranial nerves
Spinal nerves
Autonomic nervous system
What are neurons? Ans: Cells that transmits impulses within nervous
system.
Either enhances or inhibits the impulse.
What are sensory (afferent) neurons? Ans: Control sensation and transmit
messages from peripheral nervous system to central nervous system.
What are motor (efferent) neurons? Ans: Control mobility and transmit
messages from central nervous system to peripheral nervous system.
What is the function of dendrites in a neuron? Ans: Receive information
from neurons and transmit message to soma.
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