Nerve Cell
Cranial Nerves
Divisions
Brain
Random Questions
100
Also called nerve cells
What is neurons
100
Cranial nerves responsible for hearing or equilibrium
What is Auditory
100
The brain and the spinal cord make up which division of the nervous system?
What is Central Nervous System
100
The groove on the surface of the brain.
What is sulkus
100
Nonmeylinated areas of the Central Nervous System
What is gray matter
200
Conduct impulses toward the cell body
What is dendrite
200
Cranial nerve responsible for movement of the tongue.
What is hypoglossal
200
All nerves outside of the CNS are part of what division of the nervous system?
What is Peripheral Nervous System
200
What divides the cerebrum into equal left & right halves?
What is longitudinal fissure?
200
Myelinated areas of the PNS & CNS
What is White Matter
300
Conducts impulses away from the cell body
What is axon
300
What nerves carry motor impulses from the CNS to muscle fibers or glands?
What is motor nerves
300
The 2 divisions of the peripheral nervous system
What is Somatic & Autonomic
300
What 3 parts make up the brainstem?
What is midbrain, pons and medulla oblogata?
300
On average, how many brain cells do you have?
What is 100 billion
400
Cells used for support in the nervous system
What is neuroglial cells
400
Where are the origins of the cranial nerves?
What is brainstem
400
The sensory neurons are part of which division in the PNS?
What is Somatic
400
Three layers of the meninges from closest to the brain out.
What is pia matter, arachnoid space, dura matter
400
Found between the Schwann cells and allows for transmission of signals along the axon.
What are Nodes of Ranvier
500
Secreted by Schwann cells & covers the axis cylinder
What is myelin sheath
500
Which cranial nerve, when aggravated, causes hiccups?
What is vagus nerve
500
What are the two divisions of the Autonomic Nervous System?
What are the Sympathetic & Parasympathetic Divisions?
500
The front & back projections of gray matter in the spinal cord.
What is anterior and posterior horns
500
This neuron (general) transmit from associative neurons to muscle or glands to bring about a response.
What is motor.
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