M02 - smartbook assignment
What does the peripheral nervous system consist of? - ANS-spinal and cranial
What is the motor division of the PNS? - ANS-carries signals to the muscles or glands
What is the afferent subdivision of the PNS? - ANS-transmits signals from receptors to
the CNS
What is a ganglia? - ANS-These are collections of cell bodies outside the central
nervous system (CNS)
What division of the nervous system consists of cranial and spinal nerves? -
ANS-peripheral nervous system
What is the motor division? - ANS-means "to leave"
What organs make up the peripheral nervous system? - ANS-spinal nerves and cranial
nerves
The ______ function of the nervous system is to gather ______ information and make
decisions that affect ______ functions. - ANS-integrative; sensory; motor
A ganglion a cluster of? - ANS-cluster of cell bodies in PNS
What is the somatic division? - ANS-specializes in the control of voluntary movements
and the communication of information to and from the sense organs
What is the motor division? - ANS-somatic and autonomic
Which three describe the autonomic nervous system? - ANS-subdivision of the PNS,
controls smooth and cardiac muscle, effectors are under involuntary control
What is the axon collateral? - ANS-branch of axon that also ends in terminals
What is axon terminal? - ANS-end of axon
What is the axon hillock? - ANS-where the axon joins the cell body
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