Anatomy and Physiology Quiz 1

1. Why aren’t antibiotics useful during a common cold infection?

2. What are the main components of the central nervous system?

3. 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?

4. Which of these sections of the small intestine receives chyme from the stomach?

5. What is the major difference between the autonomic nervous system and the somatic nervous system?

6. Correctly identify the zone of the adrenal cortex that releases cortisol:

7. If your spinal cord is damaged, why might you lose the ability to move your limbs?