Nerve Vocab

Question 0

denrites

Answer 0

Conduct electrical currents toward the cell body soup

Question 1

axon teminals

Answer 1

Releases neurotransmitters

Question 2

myelin sheaths

Answer 2

Increases the speed of impulse transmission

Question 3

neuron body

Answer 3

Location of the nucleus

Question 4

Axon

Answer 4

usually conduct impulses away from the cell body

Question 5

stimulis

Answer 5

acts upon the receptor

Question 6

neurilemma

Answer 6

The neuron husk the outer layer of the Schwan cell

Question 7

Nodes of Ranvier

Answer 7

gaps in shwan cells

Question 8

effector organ

Answer 8

An organ or gland capable of being activated by nerve endings

Question 9

Schwan cell

Answer 9

froem myelin sheaths around axons wraparound nerve fibers

Question 10

cutaneous sense organs

Answer 10

Sensory receptors found in the skin which are specialized to decect temperature pressure changes and pain

Question 11

Specialized cells that Myelinate the fibres or neurons found in PNS

Answer 11

schwan cells

Question 12

synapse

Answer 12

Junction of point of close connect between neurons

Question 13

Tract

Answer 13

Bundle of nerve processes inside the CNS

Question 14

Association neuron Interneuron

Answer 14

Neuron serving as a part of the conduction pathway between sensory and motor neurons

Question 15

ganglion

Answer 15

Collection of nerve cell bodies found outside the CNS

Question 16

efferent

Answer 16

Neuron that conducts impulses away from the CNS two muscles and glands

Question 17

propirceptors

Answer 17

Sensory receptors found in muscle and tendon that detect their degree of stretch

Question 18

Afferent neuron

Answer 18

neurons that conducts impulses to ward the CNS from Body periphery

Question 19

neurotransmitters

Answer 19

Chemicals released by your odds that stimulate other neurologic lids or muscles