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16 Cards in this Set
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Central nervous system |
Made of the brain and spinal cord |
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Peripheral nervous system |
Body to the CNS |
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Sensory (afferent) |
Nerve that is the stimuli |
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Motor (efferent) |
Nerves that produce response to the stimuli |
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Somatic nervous system |
Connects CNS to skin and skeletal muscles Consists of cranial and spinal nerves Voluntary movements |
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Autonomic nervous system |
Connects CNS to visceral organs Involuntary Sympathetic vs parasympathetic |
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Sympathetic. |
Use energy, fight or flight |
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Parasympathetic |
Homeostasis, resting |
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Frontal Parietal (2) Occipital Temporal (2) Sphenoid Ethmoid |
8 cranial bones |
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Skin, subq, galea aponeurotica, periosteum |
Layers of cranium |
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Galea aponeurotica |
Fibrous membrane connecting the Occipital and frontal muscles over top of the skull |
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Grey matter |
Consists of cell body's |
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White matter |
Bundles of axons, Myelin sheath, nerve cells |
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Cell body |
Nucleus, CNS, has none in arms and legs |
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Dendrites |
Transmit impulses toward cell body |
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Axons |
Transmit impulses away from body |
