Vocabulary 9

4. The space between two neurons across which the impulse is transmitted by a neurotransmitter
8. chemical messengers that your body can't function without
9. a greatly extended and modified plasma membrane wrapped around the nerve axon in a spiral fashion
10. a rapid sequence of changes in the voltage across a membrane.
11. The medial temporal lobe supports the quality of visual short-term memory representation
13. specialised cells involved in the detection, phagocytosis and destruction of bacteria and other harmful organisms
16. The space between the end of a nerve cell and another cell.
18. proteins that protect you when an unwanted substance enters your body

1. The act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce protection from a specific disease.
2. the electrical potential difference between the inside and outside of a neuron
3. a branching figure resembling a tree
5. Any substance that causes the body to make an immune response against that substance
6. an action potential which propagates along the axon, from the cell body to the synapses.
7. Large phagocytic cell found in stationary form in the tissues or as a mobile white blood cell, especially at sites of infection.
12. a microorganism that causes, or can cause, disease.
14. A condition in which there is a lower-than-normal number of leukocytes (white blood cells) in the blood.
15. the immune system's way of protecting the body against an infectious disease
17. A type of cell that receives and sends messages from the body to the brain and back to the body.