Test 2 Flashcards
What do the dendrites do?
Receive neural stimuli from other neurons or receptors at synapse.
What does the cytoplasm contain?
Different organelles, metabolizes protein to maintain health for cell.
Dendrite spines
Receive incoming impulse
Axons
Single long fiber that conducts nerve impulses away from the cell body and directs them to other parts of the body.
Where is information stored at to send down the axon?
Axon hillock
What are 4 names for bunches of axons?
Fasciculous Funiculus Lemniscus Peduncle Tract
What happens at the synapse?
One neuron communicates with another synapse
Presynaptic cell
Neuron to synapse
Synaptic cleft
Space in between neuron and synapse.
Postsynaptic cell
Neuron that receives information.
Axodendritic
Axon to dendrite
Axosomatic
Axon to soma
Axoxonic
Axon to axon
Sensory are what kind of nerves?
Afferent, they take in information and send it to the CNS.
What kind of never is motor?
Efferent. Send out information to the muscles