Nervous System Terminology

serves as communication lines amoung sensory organs, the brain and spinal cord, and glands or muscles

• central nervous system

• peripheral nervous system

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

integration command center that interprets incoming sensory information, and issues outgoing instructions

• central nervous system

• peripheral nervous system

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

the brain & spinal cord are part of the

• CNS

• PNS

The sensory division of the PNS is also known as the _____________ division

• afferent

• efferent

The motor division of the PNS is also known as the _____________ division

• afferent

• efferent

the voluntary division of the efferent PNS is called the ___________ division

• somatic

• autonomic

the involuntary division of the efferent PNS is called the ________________ division

• somatic

• autonomic

support cells in the CNS are grouped together as "____________"

• neurons

• neuroglia

• dendrites

• axons

a nerve cell is called a _________

• Scwann Cell

• hematocyte

• osteocyte

• neuron

Abundant, star shaped cells that brace neurons, form barriers between capillaries & neurons, and control the chem environment of the brain

• microglia

• astrocytes

• ependymal cells

• Schwann Cells