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| peripheral nerve attached to spinal cord. Brings onfo back and forth from CNS to glands and muscles |
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| axon directed towards CNS conveyed sensory info |
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| axon that is directed away from CNS, conveying motor commands to muscles and glands |
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| peripheral nerve attached directly to brain (12 pairs) |
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| largest of cranial nerve, conveys efferent fibers of parasympathetic division of autonomic nervous system to organs of thoracic and abdomincal cavities |
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| part of the peripheral nervous system that controls movement of muscles or transmits sensory info to brain and spinal cord |
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| part of peripheral nervous sytem that controls body's vegitative functions ( |
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| portion of autonomic nervous system that controls functions that accomany arousal and expenditure of energy. increase breathing, heart rate, decreased digestive activity. epinenphrine and norepinephrine cause increased blood flow, break dowen of stored nutrients into glucose |
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| portion of autonomic nervous sustem that control functions that occur during relaxed state, increases digestive activity, acetlycoline a major player |
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