A&P Ch. 24 The Nervous System with 100% Verified Solutions | Updated & Verified | Latest Update

A&P Ch. 24 The Nervous System with 100% Verified Solutions | Updated & Verified | Latest Update
nervous system - ✔✔must gather, store, and decipher both external and internal information
neurons - ✔✔motor
sensory
inter
motor neurons - ✔✔neurons that carry outgoing information from the brain and spinal cord to the
muscles and glands
efferent nerves - ✔✔"carrying away"
motor neurons
sensory neurons - ✔✔neurons that carry incoming information from the sensory receptors to the brain
and spinal cord.
Lack true dendrites
afferent neurons - ✔✔"carry toward"
sensory neurons
Interneurons - ✔✔neurons within the brain and spinal cord that communicate internally and intervene
between the sensory inputs and motor outputs
nerve fiber - ✔✔axon of a neuron.
a single elongated process.
Schwann cells - ✔✔Supporting cells of the peripheral nervous system responsible for the process of
regenerating
tracts - ✔✔bundles of nerve fibers in the CNS