Nervous System Vocabular

1. system that regulates the body’s responses to internal and external stimuli 

• Neuron

• Nervous System

• Axon

• Synapse

Nerve cells that provide communication through the body

• Reuptake

• Axon

• Dendrite

• Neuron

1. part of the neuron that carries messages away from the cell body 

• Axon

• Dyndrite

• Axon Terminal

• Myelin

1. art of the neuron that produces energy for the cell 

• Action Potential

• Nervous System

• Myelin

• Cell Body

part of the neuron that receives impulses and conducts them to the cell body

• Axon Terminal

• Dendrite

• Axon

• Neuron

1.  a disease in which the immune system mistakenly destroys some of myelin wrapped around a part of the nerve cell 

• Alzheimer's

• ALS

• Multiple Sclerosis

• Leukemia

1. end of an axon that sends neurotransmitters from mone neuron to another 

• Axon Terminal

• Axon

• Dendrite

• Synapse

1. the junction between the axon terminal of the neuron and dendrites of another neuron 

• Axon Terminal

• Axon

• Synapse

• Dendrite

1.  chemical messenger that carries impulses across the synaptic gap across transmitters 

• Action Potential

• Neurotransmitters

• Reuptake

• Somatic Nervous System

1. electrical charge that travels down its axon 

• Synapse

• Action Potential

• Neurotransmitters

• Reuptake