Nervous System Vocab

The brain and spinal cord

• central nervous system

• peripheral nervous system

• axon

• dendrites

all parts of the nervous system external to the brain and spinal cord

• central nervous system

• peripheral nervous system

• ependymal

• oligodentrocytes

transmitters that carry impulses from the skin and organs to the spinal cord and brain; afferent neurons

• sensory neurons

• astrocytes

• motor neurons

• efferent nerves

a nerve that stimulates skeletal muscle tissue

• afferent nerves

• motor neurons

• efferent nerves

• astrocytes

sensory transmitters that send impulses from receptors in the skin, muscles, and joints in the CNS

• Afferent nerves

• efferent nerves

• microglia

• motor neurons

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motor transmitters that carry impulses from the CNS to the muscles and glands

• efferent nerves

• afferent nerves

• motor neurons

• white matter

cells that make up nerve tissue

• neuron

• meninges

• CNS

• PNS

a long, then fiber connected to the motor neuron cell body

• axon

• neuron

• gray matter

• astrocytes

branches of a neuron that collect stimuli and transport them to a cell body

• dendrites

• axon

• neuron

• microglia

part of an axon that contains a nucleus

• cell body

• ependymal

• satellite cells

• myelin sheath