Chapter 7 Flashcards
Nervous system helps with what?
Maintain Homeostasis
Central nervous system contains
Brain and spinal cord
Peripheral nervous system contains what
Cranial nerves (12 pairs)
Spinal nerves (31 pairs)
What send Signals TO the CNS
Sensory divison
What OUTPUTS from the CNS
Motor division
What is the somatic nervous system
Controlled voluntarily
Stimulates skeletal muscles
What is the autonomic nervous system (ANS)
Controlled Involuntary movement
Stimulates smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, and glands
Automic nervous system is divided into what
Parasympathetic and sympathetic
What is the sympathetic nervous system
Prepares body for emergency
Ex: fight or flight
Parasympathetic nervous system
Rest and digest
Nervous system is made up of what 2 cells
Neurons and neuroglial cells
What are neurons
Conduct impulses
Unique structure
Functional cells
What are neuroglial cells
Regulate and protect neurons
What is the main portion of the cell
Cell body
Nucleus holds what
DNA
What are dendrites
Receive signals
Carries impulses TOWARDS the cellbody
Vary in number
What is an axon
Only one
Sends signals
Carry impulses AWAY from the cell
What is the axon terminal
Axon releases neurotransmitters to affect the next cell
What is myelin sheath
Protects and insulates axon
What are neuroglia cells
Protect nervous tissue
Supports nervous tissue
AIDS in cell repair
Remove pathogens
Ependymal cella
Form barrier between brain and cerebrospinal fluid in the ventricles and central canal of spinal cord (controls chemical environment of neurons)
What are astrocytes
Pass materials from blood vessels to neurons
Form a blood brain barrier
Oligodendrocytes
Form myelin sheath in brain and spinal cord
Microglial cells
Small cells
Phagocytosis of unwanted substances in the CNS
Schwann cells
Form myelin sheath in the PNS
Insulates and protects axons and conducts impulses faster
Sensory neurons
Receptors help detect stimuli
Part of the PNS
Interneurons
Gets info from sensory neurons in the brain and spinal cord (CNS)
Motor neurons
Gets into from Interneurons
Conduct impulses away from the brain or spinal cord to muscles or glands
Bipolar neuron
One main dendrite, one axon,
Ex: Retina of eye and inner ear