Anatomy and Physiology Quiz 1

1. Which salivary gland type is the largest contributor to the saliva in our oral cavity?

2. Phantom pain is a phenomenon in which someone loses a limb to an accident or amputation, but can still feel pain in the limb after it is gone. To treat this condition, doctors sometimes stimulate nerves in other parts of the body, such as nerves in the face when someone suffers phantom pain in their arm. Why does this stop the pain from the phantom limb?

3. Why do diseases involving abnormally folded proteins preferentially attack the nervous system?

4. What is the name of the gland analogous to the prostate gland, but found within females?

5. Which of the following is released by the posterior pituitary?

6. Which of these terms specifically refers to the hardening of arteries through the formation of plaques?

7. If a person's thyroid gland is malfunctioning, which of the following consequences will be readily observed?