Nervous System

Subdivisions

100

Consists of the spinal cord and brain

CNS

200

Consists of the cranial and spinal nerves

PNS

300

Controls involuntary bodily functions

ANS

400

Prepares the body for physical activity, Used for fight-or-flight responses 

Sympathetic division

500

Used to "rest and digest", for examples slows heart rate

Parasympathetic division

Disorders

100

Abnormal electric discharges that cause seizures 

Epilepsy

200

May understand what others are saying, but have trouble speaking and getting words out

Broca Aphasia

300

Tend to jumble words and can't be understood by others

receptive aphasia

400

Crippling inflammation of the gray matter of the spinal cord

poliomyelitis 

500

The most common type of brain tumor

Gliomas

Structure

100

The cell body of a neuron

Axon

200

The largest part of the brain, composed of right and left hemispheres

Cerebrum

300

Part that is important for memory consolidation

hippocampus

400

The part where all sensory impulses are processed

Thalamus

500

The point where neurons make contact with each other

synapses

Combining forms

100

Neur-

Neuron, nerve, nervous system

200

Gli-, -glia-

[glue] glia, neuroglia 

300

Dendrit-

[Pertaining to a tree] dendrite, dendron

400

Fascicl-, fascicul-

[little bundle] fasciculus

500

Cortic-, cortex

[bark, rind] outer layer (of an organ)