What is the flow of blood through a capillary bed called?
A) pulmonary circulation
B) hepatic portal circulation
C) systemic circulation
D) microcirculation
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Question 2) Fibers that carry information from the skin, joints, and skeletal muscles to the central nervous system are ________.
A) motor
B) both visceral and sensory
C) both somatic and sensory
D) interneurons (association neurons)
E) parasympathetic
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Question 3) Large veins have ________ to prevent the backflow of blood.
A) tunics
B) sphincters
C) valves
D) shunts
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Question 4) The term central nervous system refers to the ________.
A) autonomic and peripheral nervous systems
B) brain, spinal cord, and cranial nerves
C) brain and cranial nerves
D) spinal cord and spinal nerves
E) brain and spinal cord
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Question 5) What drains capillary beds?
A) venules
B) venae cavae
C) arterioles
D) arteries
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Question 6) What division of the autonomic nervous system is often called the rest-and-digest division?
A) somatic
B) sympathetic
C) parasympathetic
D) afferent
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Question 7) Arteries are normally depicted as red while veins are colored blue due to the oxygenation of the blood being transported by each type of vessel. The exceptions to this rule are the ________ arteries and veins.
A) systemic
B) hepatic
C) coronary
D) pulmonary
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Question 8) Each spinal nerve divides into a dorsal and a ventral ________.
A) ramus
B) tract
C) ganglion
D) plexus
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Question 9) Our vessels lose elasticity as we age, as happens in arteriosclerosis. Which vessel layer is affected?
A) tunica intima
B) tunica externa
C) tunica media
D) tunica adventitia
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Question 10) The largest nerve in the body, the sciatic nerve, belongs to the ________ nerve plexus.
A) lumbar
B) sacral
C) brachial
D) cervical
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