Nervous System
Across
- 4. Area of skin innervated by a single spinal nerve
- 7. Type of motor neuron that adjusts sensitivity of muscle spindles
- 10. Glial cell responsible for myelination in the PNS
- 13. Type of reflex with only one synapse between sensory and motor neurons
- 15. Motor system that controls voluntary movement of skeletal muscles
- 18. Myelin-producing cell in the CNS
- 23. Basic functional cellular unit of the nervous system
- 25. Direction of neural signaling traveling toward the CNS
- 27. Direction of neural signaling traveling away from the CNS
- 30. Sensory receptor that detects potentially damaging or painful stimuli
- 31. Major ascending tract that transmits pain and temperature
- 32. Division of the autonomic nervous system responsible for rest and digest
- 34. Type of motor neuron that innervates extrafusal muscle fibers
- 36. Mechanism by which visceral and somatic afferents share spinal neurons
- 39. Division of the autonomic nervous system responsible for fight or flight
- 40. Nerves that carry autonomic fibers to abdominal and pelvic viscera
Down
- 1. Neuronal process specialized for receiving incoming signals
- 2. Spinal horn where motor neurons reside
- 3. Sensory receptor within skeletal muscle that detects changes in muscle length
- 5. Bundle of axons located within the CNS
- 6. Nerves and ganglia outside the brain and spinal cord
- 8. Neuronal process that carries electrical signals away from the cell body
- 9. Collection of neuronal cell bodies located within the PNS
- 11. Unmyelinated fiber that transmits slow dull pain
- 12. Bundle of axons located within the PNS
- 14. Brainstem region involved in descending pain modulation
- 15. Neurotransmitter released by the raphe nuclei during pain inhibition
- 16. Autonomic neuron that extends from a ganglion to a target organ
- 17. Type of reflex initiated by muscle spindle activation
- 19. Spinal horn where sensory neurons synapse
- 20. Type of pain felt at a site distant from its actual origin
- 21. Insulating material surrounding certain axons that increases conduction velocity
- 22. Supports neurons and helps form the blood-brain barrier in the CNS
- 24. Autonomic neuron that extends from the CNS to an autonomic ganglion
- 26. Gap between adjacent segments of myelin along a myelinated axon
- 28. An automatic motor response to a sensory stimulus
- 29. Term for motor or sensory functions involving internal organs
- 33. Myelinated fiber that transmits sharp localized pain
- 35. Motor system that regulates smooth muscle cardiac muscle and glands
- 37. Type of endogenous opioid that modulates pain
- 38. Brain and spinal cord make up this division of the nervous system