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7 Cards in this Set
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How is the spinal cord partitioned?
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Inner gray matter and outer white matter (opp of brain)
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What does the peripheral white matter do?
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Provides a means of neural communication to and from the brain
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What conducts impulses from the pipheral sensory receptors of the body to the brain?
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Ascending tracts
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What conducts motor impulses from the brain to the muscles and glands?
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Descending Tracts
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What is in the gray matter of the spinal cord?
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dendrites and cell bodies of neurons and glial cells and unmyelenated axons
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Where is the CSF located in spinal cord?
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Central canal, subarachnoid space of meninges
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What is the spinal cord's central canal continous with?
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medulla oblongata and ventricles of the brain
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