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| motor pathways of the peripheral nervous system that leads to the skin and skeletal system. |
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| peripheral nervous system |
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| portions of the nervous system outside the central nervous system, PNS. |
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| portion of nervous system that controls the viscera. |
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| cavity, such as brain ventricles filled with cerebrospinal fluid, or heart ventricles that contain blood. |
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| rapid, automatic response to stimulus. |
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| process of neurons that receives input from other neurons. |
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| nerve pathway, consisting of a sensory neuron, inter neuron, and motor neurons, that forms the structural and functional bases are a reflex. |
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| short region of exposed axon between Schwann cell on neurons of the peripheral nervous system. |
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| muscle or gland that effects change in the body. |
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| specialized cells provide information about enviornment cell surface structures that bind particular molecules called, ligands, thereby transmitting a signal to the inside cell. |
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| nerve that arises from the spinal cord. |
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| type of neurological cell that surrounds a fiber of peripheral nerve, forming the neurilemma and myelin. |
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| fatty material that forms a sheathlike covering around some nerve fibers/ |
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| nerve fibers; conducts nerve impulses away from a neuron cell body. |
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