Neurons and Nerver Impulses Crossword
Across
- 3. The part of a neuron that processes incoming information (two words)
- 5. Bundles of neurons
- 6. Cytoplasmic extensions that extend from the body of the neuron
- 7. The starting point for the transmission of a nerve impulse (two words)
- 9. Restoration of the resting potential
- 11. The tiny gap between every axon and its neighboring cell
- 13. Disease resulting from the destruction of the myelin sheath covering nerves and characterized by loss of muscular coordination (two words)
- 14. The extension of a neuron that carries impulses away from the cell body
Down
- 1. Process in which the various excitatory and inhibitory electrical effects tend to cancel or reinforce one another
- 2. A cell that wraps around the axon and forms a fatty, insulating covering (two words)
- 4. Tiny sacks filled with chemical messengers
- 8. Loss of an electrical charge difference
- 10. A fatty insulating sheath (two words)
- 12. The sudden local reversal of voltage across the neuron membrane (two words)