nerve terms

Momentary change in electrical potential on the surface of a cell, especially of a nerve or muscle cell, that results in the transmission of an electrical impulse

Middle layer of meninges that has spider web appearance and covers larger blood vessels

Group of motor neurons that connect CNS to smooth muscles, cardiac muscles, and endocrine glands and is associated with involuntary control of body functions

Cytoplasmic extension of neuron that acts to transmit impulse away from the cell

Area where axon where it emerges from the soma and is the area where nerve impulse is initiated

Terminal end of axon containing a presynaptic membrane that releases a neurotransmitter to elicit a response on another neuron or other tissue

Biological structure that restricts the passage of various substances and microscopic objects between the bloodstream and the CNS, while still allowing the passage of substances essential to metabolic function

Organ of CNS that serves as the primary center for the regulation and control of bodily activities

Section of vertebrate nervous system that includes the brain and spinal cord which is involved in receiving sensory information, integrating or interpreting information and generating response

Fluid that surrounds brain and spinal cord

Section of vertebrate nervous system that includes the brain and spinal cord which is involved in receiving sensory information, integrating or interpreting information and generating response

Fluid that surrounds brain and spinal cord

Cytoplasmic extensions of neuron that act as receptors to external stimuli or other neurons

Tough inflexible outer layer of meninges that restricts movement

Sensory neurons that respond to external stimuli or stimuli outside the body

Sensory neurons that monitor visceral organ and their function

Group of membranes that surround CNS & serves to protect it from the environment

Neurons that carry impulses from brain to skeletal, smooth, and cardiac muscles and endocrine glands in the body to elicit a response

Phospholipids layer located on axon that increase the speed of impulse in providing insulation to electrical current

System that functions by allowing animal to interact with internal and external environments

Specialized, electrically excitable cell that processes and transmits information by electrical and chemical signaling

Area between myelin sheath in which the axon has no protection

Group of autonomic neurons that are involved in energy conservation and digestive tract control and tends to inhibit stress responses

All nervous tissue except the brain and spinal cord and includes sensory neurons responsible for collecting sensory information and motor neurons responsible for eliciting responses from brain

• Inter layer of meninges that is very thin fibrous covering that is essentially
• attached to brain/spinal cord

All nervous tissue except the brain and spinal cord and includes sensory neurons responsible for collecting sensory information and motor neurons responsible for eliciting responses from brain

Sensory neurons that monitor muscles and joints

Neurons that collect information from internal and external environment and sends this information to CNS for processing

Cell body of neuron that nucleus, ribsomes, smooth and rough endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria and golgi apparatus

Group of motor neurons that is associated with voluntary control of body movements via skeletal muscles

Nervous tissue that extends from brain through vertebral canal

Group of autonomic neurons that are involved in fight or flight or emergency situations and mediates increases in alertness, heart rate, blood pressure, sweating & energy mobilization

Junction between two neurons that the impulse crosses either a chemical reactions or an electrical channel