Nervous system Crosswords

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Across
  1. 3. Rest and digest division of autonomic system
  2. 5. Controls vital functions like breathing and heart rate
  3. 8. Controls voluntary skeletal muscle movement
  4. 10. Sense of taste
  5. 14. Branch-like structure that receives incoming signals
  6. 16. Rapid involuntary response pathway
  7. 17. Cluster of neuron cell bodies in the PNS
  8. 21. Common neurotransmitter in nervous system
  9. 22. Membrane becomes more negative than resting level
  10. 24. Minimum stimulus required to trigger an action potential
  11. 25. Carries commands from CNS to muscles
  12. 29. Sense of smell
  13. 31. Rapid conduction along myelinated axons
  14. 34. Return toward resting membrane potential
  15. 36. Carries information from receptors to CNS
  16. 37. Rapid all-or-none electrical signal
Down
  1. 1. CNS glial cell that supports neurons and maintains the blood-brain barrier
  2. 2. System responsible for balance
  3. 4. Long projection that carries impulses away from the cell body
  4. 6. Junction where one neuron communicates with another cell
  5. 7. Reabsorption of neurotransmitter into presynaptic neuron
  6. 9. Electrical charge difference across a neuron at rest
  7. 11. Chemical messenger released at a synapse
  8. 12. Fatty insulation that speeds up nerve conduction
  9. 13. PNS cell that forms myelin around peripheral axons
  10. 15. CNS cell that forms myelin in the brain and spinal cord
  11. 18. Reduction in membrane negativity
  12. 19. Fight or flight division of autonomic system
  13. 20. Local variable change in membrane potential
  14. 23. Largest part of brain responsible for cognition
  15. 26. Specialized cell that transmits electrical signals in the nervous system
  16. 27. Immune cell of the central nervous system
  17. 28. Light-detecting cell in the retina
  18. 30. Transmits signals between brain and body
  19. 32. Brain region responsible for coordination and balance
  20. 33. Photoreceptors responsible for color vision
  21. 34. Photoreceptors responsible for low-light vision
  22. 35. Inner ear structure responsible for hearing