Nervous System Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. sensation of flavor
  2. 6. cell that processes and transmits information through electrical and chemical signals
  3. 9. a concept in behaviorism and perception
  4. 11. nerve cell transmitting impulses between nerves
  5. 15. protein molecule usually found within plasma membrane surface of a cell
  6. 16. outer boundary or periphery
  7. 19. region of brain that plays important role in motor movement and balance
  8. 20. slender projection of neuron that conducts electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body
Down
  1. 1. protective outer covering of the body
  2. 3. non-touching connection between nerves
  3. 4. to carry away from
  4. 5. parts of brain containing cerebral cortex
  5. 7. nerve cell whose body is located in spinal cord and projects from the spinal cord to muscles to create movement
  6. 8. physiological capacity of organisms that provides data for perception
  7. 10. nerves that transmit sensory information
  8. 12. involuntary and nearly instantaneous movement in response to a stimulus
  9. 13. forming the center
  10. 14. between pons and spinal cord
  11. 17. short branched extension of a nerve cell that receives impulses from other cells at synapes
  12. 18. compact area of a nerve cellthat constitutes the nucleus and surrounding cytoplasm