Test 2 Flashcards
1
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Central nervous system
A
Brain and spinal cord
2
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Peripheral nervous system
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Connects brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body
3
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Autonomic nervous system
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Controls heart, intestines, and other organs
4
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Somatic nervous system
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Part of PNS, consists of the axons conveying messages from the sense organs to the CNS and from the CNS to the muscles. Controls voluntary muscles
5
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Dorsal
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Toward the back
6
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Ventral
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Toward the stomach
7
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Spinal cord
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- Communicates with all the sense organs and muscles except those of the head.
- Segmented, each segment has on each side a sensory nerve and a motor nerve
8
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Neuroanatomy
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The anatomy of the nervous system
