Across
- 2. Gives a white appearance to the nerve fiber-hence the term white matter of the brain and most peripheral nerves.
- 5. Containing the nerve fiber tracts with myelin sheaths.
- 7. Microscopic branching fiber of nerves cell that is the first part to receive the nervous impulse.
- 8. Containing cell bodies and dendrites.
- 10. It conducts impulses between the spinal cord and the cerebrum; incoming sensory messages are relayed through the thalamus to appropriate centers in the cerebrum.
- 12. Microscopic fiber that is part of a neuron and carries nervous impulse along a nerve cell.
- 13. Organ that receives and transmits a stimulus to sensory nerves.
- 14. Connects the spinal cord with the rest of the brain.
Down
- 1. Posterior part of the brain that coordinates muscle movements and maintains balance.
- 3. Type of glial (neuroglial) cell that transports water and salts from capillaries in the nervous system.
- 4. Nerves outside the brain and spinal cord: cranial, spinal, and autonomic nerves.
- 6. Largest part of the brain; responsible for voluntary muscular activity, vision, speech, taste, hearing, thought, and memory.
- 9. Are three layers of connective tissue membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord.
- 11. Connective and supporting tissue of an organ.
- 15. Is an individual nerve cell, a microscopic structure.