Nervous System Vocab

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  1. 6. Long, slender projection of a neuron that conducts electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body
  2. 7. Refers to the parts of the brain containing the cerebral cortex
  3. 8. Something that causes a physiological or psychological response
  4. 9. A part of the brain that controls smooth, patterned, and coordinated movements
  5. 11. Create neural circuits, enabling communication between sensory or motor neurons
  6. 12. A short, branched extension of a neuron, along which impulses received from other cells at synapses are transmitted to the cell body
  7. 16. Any structure that produces an informative nerve impulse when receiving environmental stimuli
  8. 17. Part of the brainstem that controls breathing, BP, & HR
  9. 18. Structure that permits a neuron to pass an electrical or chemical signal to another cell
Down
  1. 1. A faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus (i.e. touch, taste, smell, sight, hearing)
  2. 2. Of, at, or forming the center
  3. 3. Efferent nerves that carry signals from the spinal cord to the muscles
  4. 4. Sensation of flavor perceived in the mouth on contact with a substance
  5. 5. Neurons that transfer sensory information
  6. 7. The compact area of a cell that contains the nucleus and surrounding cytoplasm, excluding axons and dendrites
  7. 10. Of, or related to being situated on the edge of something
  8. 13. Term meaning "conveying away from the center"
  9. 14. Cell that processes and transmits information through electrical and chemical signals
  10. 15. An action that is performed as a response to a stimulus without conscious thought
  11. 18. Largest organ; protects the whole body