Week 10: The Nervous System

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Across
  1. 2. microscopic branching fiber of a nerve cell that is the first part to receive the nervous impulse.
  2. 5. collection of spinal nerves below the end of the spinal cord.
  3. 9. space thru which a nervous impulse travels between nerve cells: means, a point of contact
  4. 12. connective and supportive tissue of an organ. In the nervous system these are glial cells.
  5. 13. this nervous system contains nerves that are only found in the digestive system.
  6. 14. portion of the brain that controls body temperature, sleep, appetite, sexual desire, and emotions such as fear and pleasure.
  7. 15. largest part of the brain: responsible for voluntary muscular activity, vision, speech, taste, hearing, thought and memory.
Down
  1. 1. suffix that means seizure
  2. 3. meninges that means hard mother, in Latin.
  3. 4. large, interlacing networks of nerves
  4. 6. neurotransmitter chemical released at the ends of nerve cells.
  5. 7. suffix that means strength
  6. 8. relatively sudden loss of consciousness, followed by a spontaneous rapid and complete recovery
  7. 10. microscopic fiber that is part of a neuron and carries nerve impulses along the nerve cell.
  8. 11. neurons and nerves, essential distinguishing tissue of the nervous system.