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The Human Body in Health and Illness- Ch
10 Nervous System: Nervous Tissue and
Brain. Exam study Guide.


Central Nervous System (CNS) - Answers✔part of the nervous system that contains the brain
and the spinal cord

Peripheral Nervous System(PNS) - Answers✔the sensory and motor neurons that connect the
central nervous system to the rest of the body

Motor nerves - Answers✔nerves that carry out the plans made by the CNS; efferent nerves

Sensory nerves - Answers✔nerves that gather information from the environment and carry it to
the CNS; afferent nerves

Interneurons, Intergraded Neurons - Answers✔the processing and interpretation of information
by the cells of the CNS; the decision-making capability

Neurons - Answers✔nerve cells that transmit information as electrical signals

Astrocyte - Answers✔Common type of glial cell that supports and protects the neurons; helps
form the blood-brain barrier

Ependymal cells - Answers✔type of glial cell that lines the inside cavities of the brain; helps
form the cerebrospinal fluid

Schwann cells - Answers✔glial cells that form the myelin sheath in the peripheral nervous
system

Microglia - Answers✔glial cells that engage in phagocytosis of pathogens and damaged tissue;
protective role

Neuroglia (glia) - Answers✔Nerve tissue that is called nerve glue; composed of astrocytes,
microglia, oligodendrocytes, and ependymal cells


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