Chapter 14: Nervous Tissue Flashcards
What are the three functions of the nervous system?
- Collect information: sensory input
- Process and evaluate information: the brain and spinal chord interprets stimuli
- Response to information: motor output
What are the structural classifications of the nervous system?
- central nervous system (CNS)
- peripheral nervous system (PNS)
What are the functional classifications of the nervous system?
- sensory (afferent)
- somatic
- visceral - motor (efferent)
- somatic
- visceral (autonomic)
The CNS includes the …
- brain
- spinal cord
The PNS includes the …
- cranial nerves
- spinal nerves
- ganglia
List the functional characteristics of the sensory nervous system.
- afferent
- sensory input
- sensory receptors receive stimuli and nerves transmit this information to the CNS
- unipolar
List the functional characteristics of the motor nervous system.
- efferent
- motor output
- the CNS sends information by the way of nerves to effector organs (muscles, glands)
- multipolar
What are the two functional organizations of the sensory nervous system?
- somatic: receives stimuli from the skin, joints, skeletal muscles, and special sense organs
- visceral: receives stimuli from the viscera
Match the following:
- somatic
- visceral
a. voluntary
b. involuntary
- Somatic (voluntary)
- Visceral (involuntary)
What are the two functional organizations of the motor nervous system?
- somatic: sends information to skeletal muscle
- visceral (autonomic): sends information to cardiac muscle, smooth muscle, and glands
Nervous tissue is composed of which type of cells?
1, Neurons
2. Glial cells
Which cells in the nervous tissue are excitable and receive neuron impulses?
Neurons
Which cells in the nervous tissue are non-excitable cells and are support for the neuron?
Glial cells
List the four characteristics of neurons.
- Excitability: response to stimuli
- Conductivity: propagate electrical signal
- Extreme longevity
- Amniotic
What are the main structures of the presynaptic neuron?
- Dendrites
- Cell body
- Axon hillock
- Axon
- Axon collaterals
- Nodes of Raniver
- Telodendria (synaptic knobs)
Name the structure and function.
- receives input
- graded potential
-multiple branching of unmyelinated processes
Name the structure and function.
- interprets the input from dendrites
- neuron’s control center
- contains chromatophilic substances (nissl bodies)
Name the structure and function.
- sends action potential away from cell body to neurons, muscle cells, glands
- long process from cell body
Name the structure.
Axon hillock: connection between axon and cell body
Name the structure.
Axon collaterals: side branch of axon