Nervous & Endocrine System Review

This organ allows your brain to communicate with the rest of your body

• Peripheral nervous system (PNS)

• Central nervous system (CNS)

• Spinal cord

• Neuron

The central nervous system includes

• the brain & spinal cord

• the brain stem & nerves

• the sensory & motor parts of the brain

• the brain & trachea

A nerve cell that moves messages throughout the body by electrical impulses.

• Integumentary nerve

• Cerebrum

• Brain

• Neuron

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This body system's main job is to control all body functions by sending and receiving messages up & down the spinal cord through nerves.

• The endocrine system

• The digestive system

• The nervous system

• The integumentary system

The main organs of the endocrine system are

• glands that produce red blood cells

• glands that produce hormones that must match a receptor cell in another part of the body to cause a necessary change in the body.

• blood vessels that help break down nutrients in food

• glands that produce hormones that regulate mood, sleep, growth, metabolism, & sexual function

Glands that affect kidneys & regulate your body's response to stress.

• Ovaries

• Thyroid gland

• Adrenal glands

• Pituitary gland

The body's ability to maintain a stable, internal balance.

• Hypertension

• Hypothyroidism

• Internalization

• Homeostasis

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Helps the body's immune system to recognize & reject germs.

• Thymus

• Pancreas

• Adrenal gland

• Neurons

What is another name for "nerve cells?"

• Brain

• Neurons

• Spinal cord

• Testes

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The gap found at the end of one nerve's axon & the next nerve's dendrite

• Axonomic space

• Neuron

• Synapse

• Separator