Day 9 Vocabulary Assignments

2. treatment with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease; inoculation
4. occurs when the membrane potential of a specific cell location rapidly rises and falls
8. a colorless cell that circulates in the blood and body fluids and is involved in counteracting foreign substances and disease
13. the imbalance of electrical charge that exists between the interior of electrically excitable neurons and their surroundings.
14. A type of white blood cell that surrounds and kills microorganism
17. one of the four major lobes of the cerebral cortex. It is the lower lobe of the cortex, sitting close to ear level within the skull
18. the fundamental units of the brain and nervous system

1. a chemical substance that is released at the end of a nerve fiber by the arrival of a nerve impulse
3. an electrical signal that travels along a nerve fiber in response to a stimulus
5. the ability of an organism to resist a particular infection or toxin by the action of specific antibodies or sensitized white blood cells
6. a small colorless disk-shaped cell fragment without a nucleus, found in large numbers in blood and involved in clotting
7. asymmetric intercellular junctions that mediate rapid point-to-point communication between neurons, and thereby connect neurons into circuits
9. insulating layer, or sheath that forms around nerves, including those in the brain and spinal cord
10. a blood protein produced in response to and counteracting a specific antigen
11. space that separates two neurons
12. a bacterium, virus, or other microorganism that can cause disease
15. a toxin or other foreign substance which induces an immune response in the body, especially the production of antibodies
16. projections of a neuron (nerve cell) that receive signals (information) from other neurons