Nerve Flashcards
convey action potential toward the cell body?
DENDRITES
collect/receives stimuli coming from/received by the dendrites?
CELL BODY
direct cell activity?
NUCLEUS
conveys action potential away from the cell body?
AXON
thick part of the axon that generates AP?
AXON HILLOCK
AP stands for?
ACTION POTENTIAL
first part next to the axon hillock?
INITIAL SEGMENT
acts as an insulator of electricity?
MYELIN SHEATH
makes nerve conduction faster?
MYELIN SHEATH
facilitates saltatory conduction?
NODES OF RANVIER
promotes sodium influx?
NODES OF RANVIER
AKA terminal feet?
TERMINAL ENDINGS
presynaptic terminal
TERMINAL ENDINGS
generates AP in a neuron?
AXON HILLOCK
generates AP in a motor neuron?
INITIAL SEGMENT
myelination neuron in the CNS?
OLIGODENDROCYTES
myelination neuron in the PNS?
SCHWANN CELLS
give me the 6 types of neuron fibers in alphabetical order.
A. ALPHA
A. BETA
A. GAMMA
A. DELTA
B
C
fast, large and myelinated fiber?
A. ALPHA
what are the largest and myelinated neuron fibers?
A. ALPHA
A. BETA
A. GAMMA
small and myelinated fibers?
A. DELTA
B
small and unmyelinated fiber
C
innervates extrafusal fibers (primary) and GTO?
A. ALPHA
what is GTO stands for?
GOLGI TENDON ORGAN
innervates both intra and extrafusal fibers? (secondary)?
A. BETA
innervates intrafusal fibers (primary) and muscle spindle?
A. GAMMA
fast/acute pain and temperature fiber?
A. DELTA
preganglionic autonomic fiber?
B