Nervous Tissue

Question 1

These tissues are specialized to accept and transmit impulses.

Reception and condition of impulses

Answer 1

Nervous tissue

Question 2

These are impulse-conducting cells, and the unit of structure which contains several specialized functions.

Answer 2

Neurons

Question 3

These are nervous cells involved with protection, support and nourishment

Answer 3

Neuroglia

Question 4

These convey impulses TOWARD the cell body.

Answer 4

Dendrites

Question 5

These convey impulses AWAY from the cell body

Answer 5

Axons

Question 6

These are bundles of fascicles of nerve fibers

Answer 6

Nerve

Question 7

This is responsible for joining the nerve fibers, and is a connective tissue

It is the outermost layer surrounding a peripheral nerve

Answer 7

Epineurium

Question 8

A protective and connective sheath that surrounds a nerve fascicle.

They enclose the nerve bundles or fascicles

Answer 8

Perineurium

Question 9

These are the smaller structures of nerve bundles or fascicles

Answer 9

Nerve fibers

Question 10

This is the inward extension of the perineurium

Answer 10

Endoneurium