Chapter 10 Reading & Writing Assignment Part 1

Read Chapter 10 Nervous System- Make sure that you take detailed notes on your
reading. Then, after reading chapter 10, complete the following exercise, and submit
your responses below.

A. Give meanings for the following combining forms:

1. encephal/o ____________________________________________

2. kines/o _______________________________________________

3. mening/o ____________________________________________

4. neur/o _______________________________________________

5. my/o ________________________________________________

6. vag/o- ________________________________________________

7. radicul/o _____________________________________________

8. tax/o _________________________________________________

9. myel/o _______________________________________________

10. esthesi/o ______________________________________________

B. Give meanings for the following prefixes:

1. quadri- _______________________________________________

2. hypo- ________________________________________________

3. hemi-________________________________________________

4. poly- _________________________________________________

5. sub- _________________________________________________

6. micro- _______________________________________________

7. hyper- ________________________________________________

8. dys- _________________________________________________

9. epi- _________________________________________________

10. para- _________________________________________________

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C. Give meanings for the following suffixes:

1. -algesia ______________________________________________

2. -paresis ______________________________________________

3. -phasia ______________________________________________

4. -ptosis ______________________________________________

5. -sclerosis ____________________________________________

6. -plegia ______________________________________________

7. -sthenia ____________________________________________

8. -praxia ______________________________________________

9. -blast _______________________________________________

10. -cele ________________________________________________

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Chapter 10 - Reading and Writing Assignment

Read Chapter 10 Nervous Systems- Make sure that you take detailed notes on your
reading. Then, after reading chapter 10 complete the following exercise, and submit
your responses below.

A. Match the following neurologic structures with their meanings:

axon cerebral cortex meninges oligodendroglia

cauda equina dendrite myelin sheath plexus

1. three protective membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord _________________________

2. microscopic fiber that carries the nervous impulse along a nerve cell ________________________

3. a large, interlacing network of nerves _________________________________________________

4. branching fiber that is first part of a neuron to receive a nervous impulse ____________________

5. protective fatty tissue that surrounds the axon of a nerve cell ______________________________

6. collection of spinal nerves below the end of the spinal cord ________________________________

7. glial cell that produces myelin _______________________________________________________

8. outer region of the largest part of the brain; composed of gray matter _______________________

B. Give meanings for the following terms:

9. dura mater _______________________________________________________________________

10. synapse __________________________________________________________________________

11. medulla oblongata _________________________________________________________________

12. hypothalamus ____________________________________________________________________

C. Match the following terms with their meanings or associated terms below:

gyri parenchymal cell sensory nerve

neurotransmitter pia mater subarachnoid space

13. carries messages toward the brain from receptors _______________________________________

14. essential cell of the nervous system; a neuron ___________________________________________

15. innermost meningeal membrane _____________________________________________________

16. elevations in the cerebral cortex ______________________________________________________

17. acetylcholine is an example of this chemical released into a synapse _________________________

18. contains cerebrospinal fluid _________________________________________________________

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