You Hear That a Friend Has Had a Traumatic Injury

question 17

Multiple Choice

You hear that a friend has had a traumatic injury to a part of the nervous system,resulting in a large loss in the ability to transmit nerve impulses.You guess that this means damage to the

• A) motor neuron.
• B) spinal cord.
• C) sensory neuron.
• D) brainstem.
• E) medulla oblongata.

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Definitions:

Voluntary Eating

The act of choosing what and when to eat, guided by individual preferences and physiological signals of hunger and satiety.

Sucking Reflex

A newborn’s built-in reaction of automatically sucking an object placed in its mouth. The sucking reflex enables the infant to get nourishment before it has associated a nipple with food.

Tonic Neck

A reflex in infants where turning the head to one side results in the arm on that side stretching out and the opposite arm bending at the elbow.

Rooting Reflex

An automatic response seen in newborns, where they turn their head toward anything that strokes their cheek or mouth.