Nervous system vocabulary

Brain and spinal cord

• central nervous system

• Neuroglia

Nerve cells that carry impulses forward through the central nervous system

• Afferent division

• Efferent division

An electrical even occurs when a stimulation of sufficient intensity is applied to a neuron or muscle cell allowing sodium to move into cell and reverse the polarity

• Action potential

• Central nervous system

The division of the nervous system that functions involuntarily inervates cardiac muscle, smooth muscle, and glands.

• Autonomic nervous system

• Afferent nervous system

• Action potential

• Efferent nervous system

neurons that conduct impulses away from the central nervous system

• Efferent nervous system

• Afferent nervous system

• central nervous

• Autonomic nervous system

Regulates events that are automatic or involuntary, such as the activity of smooth and cardiac muscle glands

• Involuntary nervous system

• My nervous system

• Central nervous system

• Afferent nervous system

System of nerves that connects the outlying parts of the body with the central nervous system

• Peripheral nervous system

• Somatic nervous system

• Neurolglia

• Multipolar neuron

A division of the peripheral nervous system also called the voluntary system

• Neuroglia

• Somatic nervous system

• Central nervous system

• Afferent nervous system

The non neurolonal tissue of the central nervous system that preforms supportive and other functions also called glia.

• Neuroglia

• Afferent nervous system

• Central nervous system

• Somatic nervous system

Several processes extending from the cell body

• Afferent nervous system

• Somatic nervous system

• Multipolar neuron

• Central nervous system