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Sympathetic Anatomy

Quick Quiz 3
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A 58 year old male diagnosed with chronic gastritis is also found to have hypertonic muscles at the level of T5-T9. This would be an example of a?
Somato-visceral reflex.
Viscero-somatic reflex.
Somato-somatic reflex.
Viscero-visceral reflex.

All of the following statements related to a facilitated segment are true EXCEPT.
Lower levels of afferent stimulation are required to to trigger an active response.
Once it is established, a facilitated segment can be maintained by normal CNS activity.
A facilitated segment has an elevated threshold for excitation.
A facilitated segment has an elevated efferent output.

A 48 year old female with chronic gastritis presents with tender and fibrotic paraspinal musculature on the right at T1-T4. At which of the following neurologic structures do somatic and visceral afferent fibers have a common synaptic terminus?
A dorsal horn of the spinal cord.
A ventral horn of the spinal cord.
A dorsal root ganglion.
A sympathetic chain ganglion.