1. What is the peripheral nervous system?

2. Know the difference between a mechanoreceptor, thermoreceptor, photoreceptor, chemoreceptor,

nocireceptor, and proprioceptor.

3. Know the function of the following: free nerve endings, merkel discs, root hair plexuses, meissner’s

corpuscles, krause’s end bulbs, pacinian corpuscles, ruffini’s corpuscles, muscle spindles,

golgi tendon organs, and joint kinesthetic receptors.

4. Know the 12 cranial nerves and their basic functions.

5. What is a plexus?

6. Why are spinal nerves referred to as "mixed nerves"?

7. Know the location of the cervical plexus, and know the location and function of the phrenic nerve that orginates from this plexus.

8. Know the location of the brachial plexus, and know the location and function of the axillary, median,

musculocutaneous, ulnar, and radial nerves that originate from this plexus.

9. Know the location of the lumbar plexus, and know the location and function of the femoral and

obturator nerves that originate from this plexus.

10. Know the location of the sacral plexus, and know the location and function of the sciatic nerve that

originates from this plexus.

11. Know how spinal nerves are named.

12. What is a reflex and how does it work?

13. Know where the nerves involved with the parasympathetic nervous system emerge from the central

nervous system, and their general effect on the body.

14. Know where the nerves involved with the sympathetic nervous system emerge from the central

nervous system, and their general effect on the body.