Anatomy Nervous System

2. / responsible for the integration of complex sensory and neural functions and the initiation and coordination of voluntary activity in the body.
4. / act, or influence which produces functional or trophic reaction in a receptor or an irritable tissue.
5. / a nerve cell forming part of a pathway along which impulses pass from the brain or spinal cord to a muscle or gland.
9. / a neuron that transmits impulses between other neurons, especially as part of a reflex arc.
11. / the thin layer of tissue forming the natural outer covering of the body of a person or animal.
12. / conducted or conducting outward or away from something (for nerves, for blood vessels, the organ supplied).
13. / an organ or cell able to respond to light, heat, or other external stimulus and transmit a signal to a sensory nerve.
15. / comprising the brain and spinal cord
17. / a junction between two nerve cells, consisting of a minute gap across which impulses pass by diffusion of a neurotransmitter.

1. / function is to coordinate and regulate muscular activity.
3. / a specialized cell transmitting nerve impulses
4. / that transmits nerve impulses from a sense organ towards the central nervous system—compare interneuron, motor neuron.
6. / the sensation of flavor perceived in the mouth and throat on contact with a substance.
7. / situated on the edge
8. / a short branched extension of a nerve cell
10. / the inner region of an organ or tissue
14. / the nucleus-containing central part of a neuron
16. / an action that is performed as a response to a stimulus and without conscious thought.
17. / a faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus
18. / the long threadlike part of a nerve cell along which impulses are conducted from the cell body to other cells.