Neurons
fish n' chips
Peripheral and Central Nervous Systems
Drugs
Potpourri
100
The cells that carry information throughout the nervous system.
What is a neuron?
100
A layer of receptors that line the back of the eye.
What is a retina.
100
Consists of a network of nerves that branch out from the nervous system to the rest of the body.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
100
A drug that slows down the central nervous system.
What is a depressant?
100
A snail shaped tube that is lined with receptors that respond to sound.
What is a cochlea?
200
A neuron that carries nerve impulses from one neuron to another.
What is an inter neuron.
200
A membrane that vibrates when sound hits it.
What is an eardrum?
200
The control center of the body. Includes brain and spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system?
200
A period of adjustment that occurs when a person stops taking the drug in which the body depends on.
What is withdrawal?
200
The opening in which light enters the eye.
What is a pupil?
300
Sends an impulse to a muscle or gland.
What is a motor neuron.
300
The five senses are touch, taste, vision, hearing, and smell.
What are the five senses?
300
Located in the skull, and controls functions in the body.
What is a brain?
300
The body becomes physically and emotionally dependent on the drug.
What is addiction?
300
The clear tissue tht covers the back of the eye.
What is a cornea?
400
Picks up stimuli from the internal and external environment.
What is a sensory neuron.
400
The senses pick up stimuli from the internal and external environment and send impulses to the brain to interpret.
What do the senses do?
400
Consists of a network of nerves that branch out from the central nervous system to the rest of the body.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
400
Deliberate misuse of drugs for a purpose other than medically.
What is drug abuse?
400
Can see far away but not near and eyeball is to long.
What is farsightedness?
500
When a neuron can transfer an impulse to another structure.
What is a synapse.
500
The flexible structure that focuses light.
What is a lens.
500
A thick column of nerve tissue that links the brain to most of the nerves in the peripheral nervous system.
What is the spinal cord.
500
A state in which a drug user needs larger and larger amounts of the drug to produce the same effect on the body.
What is tolerance?
500
The structure in your ear that is responsible for your sense of balance.
What is a semicircular canal?
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