Autonomic jeopardy

Anatomy Jeopardy

Tom Gest, PhD Division of Anatomical Sciences University of Michigan Medical School

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TargetsCNS/PNSGangliaPathwaysOrigins

Keep a record of each player’s points.

Otherwise known as the origin of the sympathetic nervous

system.

Origins 100 Points

Origins 100 Points

What is the thoracolumbar outflow?

Origins 200 Points

Origin of pelvic splanchnic nerves.

What is the lateral horn of spinal cord levels S2-4?

Origins 200 Points

Origins 300 Points

Cranial nerves that distribute parasympathetic fibers to ganglia in the head.

Origins 300 Points

What are cranial nerves III, VII, and IX?

Origin of the lesser thoracic splanchnic nerve.

Origins 400 Points

What is the lateral horn of spinal cord levels T10-11?

Origins 400 Points

Source of parasympathetics to the thoracic viscera.

Origins 500 Points

What are the vagus nerves?

Origins 500 Points

Source of fibers that form the cervical sympathetic trunk.

Pathways 100 Points

Pathways 100 Points

What are spinal cord levels T1-T4?

Pathways 200 Points

Spinal nerve root that carries presynaptic autonomic fibers.

What is the ventral root?

Pathways 200 Points

Pathways 300 Points

Connection between the ventral primary ramus and sympathetic chain only found in thoracic and upper

lumbar levels.

Pathways 300 Points

What is a white ramus communicans?

Source of most sympathetic fibers to the heart.

Pathways 400 Points

What are cervical cardiac branches?

Pathways 400 Points

Connections to ventral primary rami containing

unmyelinated fibers.

Pathways 500 Points

What are gray rami communicantes?

Pathways 500 Points

Greater thoracic splanchnic nerves go here to synapse.

Ganglia 100 Points

Ganglia 100 Points

What are the celiac ganglia?

Ganglia 200 Points

Inferior end of the sympathetic chains.

What is the ganglion impar?

Ganglia 200 Points

Ganglia 300 Points

Ganglia where no synapses happen.

Ganglia 300 Points

What are sensory ganglia?

Four pairs of autonomic ganglia in the head.

Ganglia 400 Points

What are the ciliary, pterygopalatine, submandibular and

otic ganglia?

Ganglia 400 Points

Four types of preaortic ganglia?

Ganglia 500 Points

What are the celiac, superior mesenteric, aorticorenal, and

inferior mesenteric ganglia?

Ganglia 500 Points

Axons arising in this horn of the spinal cord follow presynaptic autonomics to the spinal nerve.

CNS/PNS 100 Points

CNS/PNS 100 Points

What is the ventral horn?

CNS/PNS 200 Points

These trunks form as a thoracic autonomic plexus passes

into the abdomen.

What are the vagal trunks?

CNS/PNS 200 Points

CNS/PNS 300 Points

This ramus may carry both sympathetic and

parasympathetic fibers.

CNS/PNS 300 Points

What is a ventral primary ramus?

These rami connect the sympathetic chain ganglia.

CNS/PNS 400 Points

What are interganglionic rami?

CNS/PNS 400 Points

Vertebral level where the presynaptic neuron of the pelvic

splanchnics lie.

CNS/PNS 500 Points

What is L1?

CNS/PNS 500 Points

Primary target of sympathetics.

Targets 100 Points

Targets 100 Points

What is vascular smooth muscle?

Targets 200 Points

Smooth muscle of organ walls.

What is the primary target of parasympathetics?

Targets 200 Points

Targets 300 Points

Only tissue innervated by preganglionic autonomic fibers.

Targets 300 Points

What is the suprarenal medulla?

Only sympathetic target innervated by acetylcholine.

Targets 400 Points

What are sweat glands?

Targets 400 Points

Asthma drugs mimic the action of these fibers.

Targets 500 Points

What are sympathetic fibers?

Targets 500 Points

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