Nervous System Vocab

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Brain and spinal cord

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Central nervous system

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

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Sensory neurons.

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Nerve stimulating skeletal muscle

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motor neurons

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

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Afferent nerves

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Motor transmitters carrying impulses from CNS to muscles and glands.

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Efferent nerves.

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Cells that make up nerve tissue

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Neuron

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Long, thin fiber from motor neuron cell body

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axon

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

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Dendrites

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Part of an axon containing a nucleus

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cell body

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Fatty insulation around axon fibers

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myelin sheath