CHAPTER 11 – NEUROANATOMY – Matching
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Match each term to the correct descriptor. Terms may be used more than once or not at all.
special visceral efferent
special visceral afferent
general visceral afferent
general visceral efferent
1. Sensory nerves that communicate sensory information from skin, muscles, and joints, including pain, temperature,
mechanical stimulation of skin, length and tension of muscle, and movement and position of joints
2. Serve the special body senses such as vision and hearing
3. Transmit sensory information from receptors in visceral structures, such as the digestive tract
4. Provide information from the special senses of taste and smell
5. Autonomic efferent fibers serving viscera and glands
6. Innervate skeletal muscle
7. Involved with innervation of striated muscle of branchial arch origin, including the larynx, pharynx, soft palate, face,
and muscles of mastication
Match each term to the correct descriptor. Terms may be used more than once or not at all.
8. Also referred to as the prosencephalon