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| basic functional unit of nervous tissue |
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| supporting cells of the nervous tissue (astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, microglia, ependymal, Schwann, satellite) |
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| neuron fibers in the peripheral nervous system |
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| neuron fibers in the central nervous system |
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| neuron cell bodies in clusters in the central nervous system |
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collections of neuron cell bodies outside the central nervous system
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| react to touch, pressure, pain, heat, cold, stretch, vibration, and changes in position. distributed throughout the body |
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| sight, hearing, equilibrium, smell, taste |
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| react to stimuli in the external environment |
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| interoceptor/visceroceptors |
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| respond to stimuli arising within the body |
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| respond to internal stimuli but are restricted to skelet muscles, tendos, joints, ligaments, and connective tissue coverings of bones and muscles. They provide information on the position and degree of stretch of those structures |
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| the uneven clustering of cutaneous receptors in order to provide sensitivity to body areas that need it most |
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| the ability to determine which portion of the skin has been touched |
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| when a stimulus is applied for a prolonged period, the rate of receptor discharge slows and conscious awareness of the stimulus declines or is lost |
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| a sensory experience in which pain is perceived as arising in one area of the body when in fact another area is receiving the painful stimulus |
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| Oculomotor (motor: eye mover) |
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| Trochlear (motor: eye mover) |
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| Trigeminal (mixed. 3 branches: sensory fibers to face, motor fibers to chewing muscles) |
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| Abducens (motor: eye mover) |
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| Facial (mixed. sensory: taste; motor: facial expression. 5 branches: temporal, zygomatic, buccal, mandibular, cervical) |
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| vestibulocochlear (mostly sensory. 2 divisions: cochlear (hearing) and vestibular (balance)) |
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| glossopharangyal (mixed: tongue and pharynx) |
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| Vagus (only nerve that serves more than head and neck. Innervates pharynx, larynx, heart lung, viscera. Involved in regulation of heart rate, breathing and digestive systems) |
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| Accessory (mixed. supplies neck muscles) |
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| Hypoglossal (mixed. tongue muscles) |
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| system of bony chambers filled with perilymph |
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| in the perilymph of the bony labyrinth, filled with endolymph |
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| exocrine cells of the pancreas |
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| endocrine portions of pancreas. contain alpha and beta cells |
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| Islets of Langerhans - alpha cells |
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| Islets of Langerhans - beta cells |
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