This part of the peripheral nervous system branches out from the spinal cord and extends to all parts of the body, including the neck, arms, torso, legs, skeletal muscles and internal organs.
What are nerve fibers?
100
The central nervous system contains these.
What are the dorsal body cavity, with the brain housed in the cranial cavity and the spinal cord in the spinal canal?
100
This cell can send signals quickly to other cells.
What is the nerve cell, which is also called a neuron?
200
The three parts of the brain.
What are the cerebrum, cerebellum and the brain stem?
200
The spinal cord helps you do this.
What is send messages from your brain to your body?
200
The peripheral nervous system connects to this system.
What is the central nervous system?
200
The central nervous system is made up of these.
What are the brain and the spinal cord?
200
This cell is the base part of the nervous system.
What is a neuron?
300
The brain stem controls these five functions of the nervous system.
What are breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, digestion and body temperature?
300
This happens when the spinal cord is injured.
What is cell damage?
300
The peripheral nervous system is divided into these two systems.
What are the somatic nervous system and the autonomic nervous system?
300
The central nervous system gets information from this part of the body.
What are your eyes?
300
This neuron carries information throughout the body.
What are sensory neurons?
400
The brain controls these parts of your body.
What are your thoughts, memory and actions?
400
This part of the nervous system has an excellent memory.
What is the spine?
400
This system contains all of the nerves that lie outside of the central nervous system.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
400
The central nervous system controls the functions of these parts of the body.
What are the body and the mind?
400
It's in this way that neurons are like other body cells.
What is they both contain nucleus that holds genetic information?
500
The number of nerve cells wrapped around your brain.
What is 100 billion nerve cells?
500
The length of a girl's spinal cord.
What is 43 centimeters or 17 inches?
500
The peripheral nervous system contains this number of cells.
What is two?
500
These are the basic units of the central nervous system.
What are neurons?
500
This feature makes neurons unique.
What is neurons stop reproducing shortly after birth?