Nervous System A&P Test 4

Helps to keep controlled conditions within limits that maintain health and helps to maintain homeostasis; responsible for all our behaviors, memories, and movements

The branch of medical science that deals with the normal functioning and disorders of the nervous system

Made up of the brain and cranial nerves, the spinal cord and spinal nerves, nerve cell bodies, enteric plexus, and sensory receptors

A bundle of hundreds or thousands of axons, each of which courses along a defined path and serves a specific region of the body

Within the skull

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Foramina of the skull

Extends from the base of the brain to the lower back; travels through the foramen magnum of the skull and is encircled by the bones of the vertebral column

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Located outside the brain and spinal cord; small masses of nervous tissue, containing primarily cell bodies of neurons; singular = ganglion, which is a mass of nerve cell bodies outside the CNS except for the basal ganglion

Help regulate the digestive system

Either parts of neurons or specialized cells that monitor changes in the internal or external environment

1. sensory2. integrative3. motor

Afferent neurons function to sense changes in the internal and external environment through sensory receptors

Afferent neurons