The nurse is preparing material about impulse transmission to help with a presentation on the neurological system. When discussing spinal nerves, the nurse will include that each spinal nerve is made up of the dorsal root and which other root?
a. Medial
b. Lateral
c. Ventral
d. Proximal
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ANS: C
Each spinal nerve has two roots, which are neurons entering or leaving the spinal cord. The dorsal root is made of sensory neurons that carry impulses into the spinal cord. The dorsal root ganglion is an enlargement of this root that contains the cell bodies of these sensory neurons. The ventral root is the motor root; it is made of motor neurons that carry impulses from the spinal cord to muscles or glands. (Their cell bodies are in the gray matter of the spinal cord.) When the two roots merge, the nerve thus formed is a mixed nerve. A. B. D. Medial, lateral, and proximal are not parts of a spinal nerve.
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