A Bundle of Nerves
This system of nerves carries information from the body's receptors to the CNS.
What is the sensory nervous system?
This structure is a gap between the axon of a neuron and the receiving cell.
What is synapse?
This structure is sensitive to salty, bitter, sweet, sour, and umami.
What are taste buds?
This structure deforms the lens in the eye to adjust focus.
What is the ciliary muscle?
This structure allows the two hemispheres of the brain to communicate.
What is corpus callosum?
What is the autonomic nervous system?
This structure is the part of the autonomic nervous system that speeds up the heart rate.
What is the sympathetic division?
This structure is composed of the brain and spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system?
This structure converts the rocking motion of the ossicles into electrical signals that the brain interprets as sound.
What is cochlea?
This structure is composed mostly of neuron cell bodies.
What is gray matter?
This system of nerves carries instructions from the CNS to the skeletal muscles.
What is the motor nervous system?
This structure carries signals toward a neuron's cell body.
What is dendrites?
This structure controls the movement of voluntary muscles.
What is the cerebellum?
This structure is composed of cell bodies, dendrites, and axons.
What are neurons?
This structure is the part of the autonomic nervous system that slows the heart rate.
What is parasympathetic division?
This structure supports the neurons by performing various tasks so the neurons can do their job.
What is neuroglia?
This structure is composed of all nerves running off of the spinal cord.
What is peripheral nervous system?
This structure controls most high-level thinking skills such as reasoning.
What is cerebrum?
This structure is made up of chemicals that travel across the synapse, transmitting a signal from the end of an axon to a receiving cell.
What are neurotransmitters?
This structure carries signals away from a neuron's cell body.
What are axons?