Nervous System Vocab

Front

Brain and spinal cord

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Central nervous system

Front

All parts of the nervous system outside the brain and spinal cord.

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Peripheral nervous system.

Front

Transmitters carrying impulses from skin/organs to spinal cord/brain; afferent neurons.

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Sensory neurons

Front

Nerve that stimulates skeletal muscle tissue

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motor neurons

Front

Sensory transmitters sending impulses from skin, muscles, and joints to CNS.

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Afferent nerves

Front

Motor transmitters carrying impulses from CNS to muscles and glands.

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Efferent nerves.

Front

Cells that make up nerve tissue

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Neuron

Front

A long fiber connected to the motor neuron cell body.

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axon

Front

Branches of a neuron that collect stimuli and transport to cell body.

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Dendrites

Front

Part of an axon containing a nucleus

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cell body