Nerve Cells Flashcards

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Neuro glial cells

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Cells that help neurons do their jobs

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2
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dendrits

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The antenna Ray. Thin processes that come off the cell body that receive synaptic input

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Cell body (soma)

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Contains the nucleus and does “hpuEkepeing” furious like synthesis proteins

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Axons

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Single process that comes off the cell body. Info carries to other cells.

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5
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Sensory (afferent) division

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Takes info to the CNS about our body and the outside world

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Motor (efferent) division

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Carries commands to skeletal, smooth and cardiac muscles and glands as well as other neurons

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7
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Somatic

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Controls skeletal muscles (voluntary)

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Visceral (autonomic)

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Controls smooth and cardiac muscles and glands

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9
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Sensory (afferent) neurons

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Oddballs, don’t have true dendrites, protein receptors

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Polar

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Having a serration of charge

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Nerve cells

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Are polarized having charges on the inside of the membrane pulling on the + charges on the outside of the membrane

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12
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Sight

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Photoreceptors

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13
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Smell and taste

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Chemoreceptor

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14
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Hearing and balance

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Mechanorecptor

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15
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Nerve cell

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Neurons are the computational units of the nervous system that communicate impulses (action potentials) and make decisions

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