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Nervous System #1
Nervous System #2
Nervous System #3
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Nervous System #5
100
The basic structural unity of the nervous system
What is neuron?
100

protects the brain

What is skull or cranium?

100

quick automatic response to a stimulus

What is reflex action?

100

part of the organism that receives impulses

receptors

100
A condition caused by continuous repetitive movement of the wrist
What is carpal tunnel syndrome?
200
A nerve fiber that carries impulses toward the cell body
What is dendrite?
200

control blood pressure

What is brain stem?

200

changes in the environment

What are stimuli?

200

controls involuntary processes in the body

What is the medulla oblongata or brain stem

200
An inflammation of the brain frequently caused by a virus contracted from a mosquito bite
What is encephalitis?
300

bundle of neurones

What is nerve?

300
The membranes covering the brain and spinal cord
What are the meninges?
300

three types of neurones

sensory, motor and relay neurone

300

found above the spinal cord

What is the brain stem or medulla oblongata
300
The two main divisions of the nervous system
What are the Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems?
400

The part of the brain responsible for muscle coordination, balance and posture, and muscle tone

What is cerebellum?

400
The part of the brain that is responsible for thought, reasoning, memory, judgment, speech, and voluntary body movement
What is cerebrum?
400

control sense organs ____________

What is cerebrum?

400

protected by the vertebral column

What is the spinal cord

400

receives impulse and send them away cell body

what are axons

500
The part of the brain responsible for conducting impulses between brain parts and for certain eye reflexes
What is midbrain?
500
The part of the brain that regulates heartbeat, respiration, swallowing, coughing, and blood pressure
What is medulla oblongata?
500

carries impulses to the CNS

What are sensory neuron?

500

the brain weighs about _________

what is 3lbs

500
tiny gaps between nerve cells

What is a synapse