Chapter 9 Flashcards
Somatic
voluntary
autonomic
Involuntary
Nerve impulses
How the nervous system communicates with the rest of the body
Afferent impulses
Sensory
Carriers impulses into CNS
Efferent impulses
motor
Carry away from CNS by spinal chord and cranial nerves
General sensation
temp, touch, pressure, pain
Special senses
Vision, audition, olfaction (smell), Gustation (taste), equilibrium
CNS functions
Receive sensory impulses from PNS
Process and store info
send motor impulses
PNS functions
transducing energy into sensory impulses
conducting sensory impulses to the CNS
Distributing motor impulses to muscles and glands
neurons
functional cells of the nervous system that conduct nervous impulses
multipolar
Morphological type of neuron:
several dendrites one axon
all efferent and interneurons are multipolar (morphological types of neurons)
bipolar
Morphological type of neuron:
single long dendrite and single axon
least common type. Only in EYE, EAR, and NOSE
pseudounipolar
Morphological type of neuron:
cell body is offset
single long dendrite and single axon
Ganglia
groups of cell bodies in the in the PNS, called a NUCLEI in the CNS
Sensory ganglia
associated with cranial and spinal nerves
attachment to brain and spinal cord
convey general sensory input into CNS
SA and VA neurons