Chapter 9 Flashcards
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What is part of the Central Nervous System (CNS)
The brain, spinal cord
What is part of the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
afferent (sensory) division and efferent (motor) division
What is somatic sensory?
from body surface
What is visceral sensory?
from internal organs
What is somatic motor?
goes to skeletal muscles (voluntary)
What is visceral motor?
goes to organs- Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)W
What is sympathetic nervous system?
fight or flight
What is parasympathetic nervous system?
rest and digest
How many pairs does the cranial nerve have
12, coming directly from the brain, can be afferent or efferent, or both
How many spinal nerves are there?
31, coming from spinal cord, dan be afferent and efferent
What is afferent?
flowing in, it arrives
What are interneurons?
short neurons connecting other neurons to the brain
What is efferent?
flowing out- exits
What conducts signals?
neurons
What contains nucleus and organelles?
cell body
what receives the signal?
dendrites
what transmits the signals?
axon
what insulates the axon and greatly speeds up signal conduction?
myeline sheath
what are supporting cells?
glial cells (neuroglia)
What is Myelin?
forms the myelin sheath that insulated axons of neurons to increase speed of action potential transmission
What are neuroglia that forms myelin sheath?
Schwann cells, oligodendrocytes
What form the myelin sheath on axons in the PNS?
Schwann cells
What forms the myelin sheath on axons in the CNS?
Oligodendrocytes
what goes back towards resting membrane potential?
repolarize