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| 9763016516 | central nervous system parts | Brain, Spinal Cord | 0 | |
| 9763016517 | peripheral nervous system parts | Nerves, Cranial Nerves, Spinal Nerves | 1 | |
| 9763016518 | sensory division | Picks up sensory information and delivers it to the CNS | 2 | |
| 9763016519 | motor division | Carries information to muscles and glands | 3 | |
| 9763016520 | Somatic | Carries Information to skeletal muscle | 4 | |
| 9763016521 | Autonomic | Carries information to smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, and glands | 5 | |
| 9763161597 | sensory function | Sensory receptors gather information, information is carried to the CNS | 6 | |
| 9763161598 | Integrative Function | Sensory information used to create sensations, memory, thoughts, decisions | 7 | |
| 9763161599 | Motor Function | Decisions are acted upon, impulses are carried to effectors | 8 | |
| 9763161600 | Sensory Neurons | Afferent neurons carry information to the CNS | 9 | |
| 9763161601 | Interneurons | link neurons, multipolar, in CNS | 10 | |
| 9763161602 | Motor Neurons | Multipolar, carry impulses away from CNS, carry impulses to effectors | 11 | |
| 9763161603 | White Matter | Contains myelinated axons | 12 | |
| 9763161604 | gray matter | Unmyelinated structures, cell bodies, dendrites | 13 | |
| 9763240652 | Schwann cells | produce myelin in PNS, speed Neurotransmission | 14 | |
| 9763240653 | satellite cells | surround neuron cell bodies within ganglia, provide structure and nutrients | 15 | |
| 9763240654 | Synapse | Nerve impulses pass from neuron to neuron | 16 | |
| 9763532725 | absolute refractory period | Time when threshold stimulus does not start another action potential | 17 | |
| 9763532726 | relative refractory period | time when stronger threshold stimulus can start another action potential | 18 | |
| 9763532727 | EPSP (excitatory postsynaptic potential) | depolarizing graded potential in postsynaptic neuron in response to activation of excitatory synapse | 19 | |
| 9763532728 | IPSPs (inhibitory postsynaptic potentials) | A grate hyperpolarization of the postsynaptic membrane | 20 | |
| 9763532729 | Summation | EPSPs, IPSPs combine to form action potentials b/c they have individual small effects. | 21 | |
| 9763532730 | Meninges | Membranes surrounding CNS, protect CNS, three layers | 22 | |
| 9763532731 | Meninges layers | 1. Dura mater 2. Arachnoid 3. Pia mater | 23 | |
| 9764327985 | cerebrospinal fluid | Secreted by choroid plexus | 24 | |
| 9764327986 | cerebrospinal fluid | the fluid in and around the brain and spinal cord | 25 | |
| 9764327987 | General senses | Receptors that are widely distributed throughout the body Skin, various organs and joints | 26 | |
| 9764327988 | special senses | specialized receptors confined to structures in the head Eyes and ears | 27 | |
| 9764327989 | sensory receptors | Stimulate neurons to send impulses along sensory fibers to the brain | 28 | |
| 9764327990 | Sensation | A feeling that occurs when brain becomes aware of sensory impulse | 29 | |
| 9764327991 | Chemoreceptors | Respond to chemicals | 30 | |
| 9764327992 | Pain receptors (nociceptors) | Respond to tissue damage | 31 | |
| 9764327993 | Thermoreceptors | respond to changes in temperature | 32 | |
| 9764327994 | Mechanoreceptors | respond to touch, pressure, vibration, stretch, and itch | 33 | |
| 9764327995 | Photoreceptors | Respond to light | 34 | |
| 9764327996 | exteroceptive senses | senses associated with body surface; touch, pressure, temperature, pain | 35 | |
| 9764327997 | visceroceptive senses | senses associated with changes in viscera; blood pressure, ingesting a meal | 36 | |
| 9764327998 | proprioceptive senses | senses associated with changes in muscles and tendons | 37 | |
| 9764327999 | free nerve endings | simplest receptors, sense itching | 38 | |
| 9764328000 | Meissner's Corpuscles | Abundant in hairless portions of skin; lips, detect fine touch | 39 | |
| 9764328001 | Pacinian corpuscles | Common in deeper subcutaneous tissues, tendons, and ligaments. Detect heavy pressure and vibrations | 40 | |
| 9764328002 | pain inhibiting substances | enkephalins, serotonin, endorphins | 41 | |
| 9764328003 | Thalamus | Allows person to be aware of pain | 42 | |
| 9764328004 | cerebral cortex | Judges intensity of pain, locates source of pain, produces emotional and motor responses to pain | 43 | |
| 9764328005 | olfactory receptors | chemoreceptors in the upper nasal cavity that respons to odor chemicals | 44 | |
| 9764328006 | Olfactory organs | Contain olfactory receptors and supporting epithelial cells | 45 | |
| 9764328007 | Three sections of the ear | External, middle, inner | 46 | |
| 9764328008 | Auricle | Collects sound waves | 47 | |
| 9764328009 | external auditory meatus | ear canal, lined with ceruminous glands | 48 | |
| 9768441621 | Three major vesicles | Forebrain, midbrain, hindbrain | 49 | |
| 9768441622 | corpus callosum | connects the two hemispheres | 50 | |
| 9768441623 | primary motor area | frontal lobe | 51 | |
| 9768441624 | Broca's area | language area in the prefrontal cortex that helps to control speech production | 52 | |
| 9768441625 | frontal eye field | controls voluntary eye movements | 53 | |
| 9768441626 | Hypothalamus | Maintains homeostasis | 54 | |
| 9768441627 | limbic system | neural system located below the cerebral hemispheres; associated with emotions and drives | 55 | |
| 9768441628 | brain stem parts | midbrain, pons, medulla oblongata | 56 | |
| 9768441629 | cerebral peduncles | bundles of nerve fibers | 57 | |
| 9768441630 | corpora quadrigemina | centers for visual and auditory reflexes | 58 | |
| 9768441631 | vermis | connects the two hemispheres of the cerebellum | 59 | |
| 9768441632 | arbor vitae | white matter of the cerebellum | 60 | |
| 9768441633 | dentate nucleus | largest nucleus in cerebellum | 61 | |
| 9768441634 | muscarinic | type of cholinergic receptor found in smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, and glands; excitatory, slow | 62 | |
| 9768441635 | Nicotinic | Referring to cholinergic receptors that respond to nicotine as well as to acetylcholine; excitatory, rapid | 63 | |
| 9768441636 | cholinergic fibers | release acetylcholine | 64 | |
| 9768441637 | adrenergic fibers | release norepinephrine | 65 | |
| 9768441638 | sympathetic | fight or flight | 66 | |
| 9768441639 | Parasympathetic | Rest and digest | 67 |
