nervous System

Question 1

brain

Answer 1

organ of soft nervous tissue

Question 2

spinal cord

Answer 2

cylindrical bundle of nerve fibers

Question 3

Cranial nerves

Answer 3

twelve pairs of nerves which arise directly from the brain

Question 4

Autonomic nervous system

Answer 4

controls muscles of internal organs

Question 5

Peripheral nervous system

Answer 5

outside of the brain and spinal cord

Question 6

Dura mater

Answer 6

tough outermost membrane enveloping the brain and spinal cord

Question 7

Pia mater

Answer 7

tender matter

Question 8

Arachnoid mater

Answer 8

middle layer of your meninges

Question 9

Broca’s area

Answer 9

region of brain concerned with speech

Question 10

Medulla

Answer 10

inner region of a organ or tissue

Question 11

Cerebellum

Answer 11

back of the skull in vertabraes

Question 12

Pons

Answer 12

links the medulla oblongata and the thalamus

Question 13

Midbrain

Answer 13

located below the cerebral cortex and at the topmost part of the brainstrem

Question 14

Cerebrospinal fluid

Answer 14

clear watery fluid fills the space between arachnoid membrane and the pia mater

Question 15

Blood-brain barrier

Answer 15

helps keep harmful substances from the brain

Question 16

Hypothalamus

Answer 16

controls body temperature, hunger and thirst

Question 17

Diencephalon

Answer 17

central portion of the brain

Question 18

Stroke

Answer 18

blocks blood supply to the brain

Question 19

Brainstem

Answer 19

connects the cerebrum to the spinal cord and cerebellum

Question 20

Cerebral cortex

Answer 20

outermost layer

Question 21

Limbic system

Answer 21

involved with our behavior and emotion repsonses

Question 22

Phineas Gage

Answer 22

large rod through his brain and stayed awake the whole time

Question 23

Acetylcholine

Answer 23

a compound that occurs throughout the nervous system

Question 24

Dopamine

Answer 24

compound present in the body

Question 25

GABA

Answer 25

cemical messenger in your brain

Question 26

Glutamate

Answer 26

salt or ester of glutamic acid

Question 27

Norepinephrine

Answer 27

another term for noradrenaline

Question 28

Serotonin

Answer 28

monoamine neurotransmitter

Question 29

Central nervous system

Answer 29

made up of brain and spinal cord

Question 30

Somatic nervous system

Answer 30

use of skeletal muscles

Question 31

Neuroglia

Answer 31

any of the cells that hold nerve cells in place and help them work the way they should

Question 32

Astrocytes

Answer 32

star shaped glial cell of the central nervous system

Question 33

Microglia

Answer 33

resident cells of the brain

Question 34

Ependymal cells

Answer 34

ciliated- epithelial glial cells that develop

Question 35

Oligodendrocytes

Answer 35

myenlinating cells of the central nervous system

Question 36

Schwann cells

Answer 36

helps seperate and insulate nerve cells

Question 37

Satellite cells

Answer 37

precursors to the skeletel muscle cells and are responsible for the ability of muscle tissue to regenerate

Question 38

Dendrites

Answer 38

short branch extension of a nerve cell

Question 39

Axon hillock

Answer 39

region where the plasma membrane generates nerve impulses

Question 40

Axon terminal

Answer 40

very end of the axon

Question 41

Myelin

Answer 41

an insulating layer

Question 42

Nodes of Ranvier

Answer 42

specialized regions in the axonal membrane that are insulted by meylin

Question 43

Depolarization

Answer 43

loss of polarization