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Neuroglia
Spinal cord
Spinal nerves
Vocab cont.
Vocab
100
Provide support and connection
What is oligodendroglia
100
Series of connective tissue membranes
What is meninges
100
How many pairs of cervical nerves
What is 8 pairs
100
Lines the fluid filled ventricles of the brain
What is ependymal
100
Bundle of nerve cells or fibers
What is a nerve
200
Involved in the phagocytosis of unwanted substances
What is microglia
200
Outermost spinal meninx
What is dura matter
200
How many pairs of thoracic nerves
What is 12 pairs
200
The control center for whole system
What is the central nervous system
200
Neurons that have several dendrites and one axon
What is multipolar neurons
300
From the lining of the cavities in the brain and spinal cord
What is ependymal cells
300
Middle meninx
What is arachnoid
300
How many pairs of lumbar and sacral nerves
What is 5 pairs
300
Conducts impulses from the brain and spinal cord to skeletal muscle, causing us to respond or react to hanged in our external environment
What is the somatic nervous system
300
Fine extensions on the end of a axon
What is axon terminals
400
Located only in the pins and make up the neurilemma and myelin sheath
What is Schwann cells
400
Innermost spinal meninx
What is pia mater
400
How many pairs of coccygeal
What is one pair
400
Stimulates the body's vegetative activities
What is parasympathetic division
400
Have one dendrite and one axon
What is bipolar neurons
500
Star shaped cells that function in the blood brain barrier to prevent toxic substances from entering the brain
What is astrocytes
500
Space between dura matter and arachnoid
What is subdural space
500
How many pairs of spinal nerves arise from the union of the dorsal and ventral roots
What is 31 pairs
500
Short branches
What are dendrites
500
Cells that perform support and protect
What is glial