Nervous System: Chapter 12-16 Flashcards
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Processing and interpreting sensory input
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Integration
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Gathered information from stimuli
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Sensory input
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Response that activates muscle or glands
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Motor output
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Nerve cells
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Neurons
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Nucleus, metabolic center
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Cell body
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Processes that conduct impulses to cell body
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Dendrites
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Processes that conduct impulses away from cell body
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Axons
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End of axon, release neurotransmitters
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Axonal terminal
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Chemicals released from axonal terminals, stimulate cells
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Neurotransmitters
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Gap between neurons
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Synaptic cleft
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Junction
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Synapse
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Fatty material that protects and insulates
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Myelin
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Myelin that insulates axon
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Myelin sheath
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Surrounds myelin sheath
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Neurilemma
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Gaps in myelin sheath–allows for faster conduction
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Nodes of Ranvier