Central Nervous System: Nerve Tissue Overview

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What is the function of the autonomic nervous system (ANS)?

Controls the functions that are under conscious voluntary control

Provides sensory and motor innervation to all parts of the body except viscera, smooth and cardiac muscle, and glands

Provides efferent involuntary motor innervation to smooth muscle, the conducting system of the heart, and glands (correct)

Provides efferent voluntary motor innervation to skeletal muscles

Which part of the nervous system consists of cranial and peripheral nerves that conduct impulses?

Peripheral nervous system (PNS) (correct)

Somatic nervous system (SNS)

Autonomic nervous system (ANS)

Central nervous system (CNS)

What is the anatomical division of the nervous system that consists of the brain and the spinal cord?

Autonomic nervous system (ANS)

Somatic nervous system (SNS)

Peripheral nervous system (PNS)

Central nervous system (CNS) (correct)

What are the supporting cells called in the nervous system?

Glial cells Signup and view all the answers

Which part of the nervous system innervates the skeletal muscles?

Somatic nervous system (SNS) Signup and view all the answers

What is the main function of the nervous system?

To control and integrate the functional activities of the organs and organ systems Signup and view all the answers

Which type of cells assist the nerve cells in the nervous system?

Glial cells Signup and view all the answers

What does the central nervous system (CNS) consist of?

Brain and spinal cord Signup and view all the answers

Which part of the nervous system controls the functions under conscious voluntary control?

Somatic nervous system (SNS) Signup and view all the answers

What does the autonomic nervous system (ANS) provide efferent involuntary motor innervation to?

Smooth muscle, heart's conducting system, and glands Signup and view all the answers

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What is the function of the autonomic nervous system (ANS)?

Which part of the nervous system consists of cranial and peripheral nerves that conduct impulses?

What is the anatomical division of the nervous system that consists of the brain and the spinal cord?

What are the supporting cells called in the nervous system?

Which part of the nervous system innervates the skeletal muscles?

What is the main function of the nervous system?

Which type of cells assist the nerve cells in the nervous system?

What does the central nervous system (CNS) consist of?

Which part of the nervous system controls the functions under conscious voluntary control?

What does the autonomic nervous system (ANS) provide efferent involuntary motor innervation to?

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