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| Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System: Afferent (Sensory) neurons and Efferent. |
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| Afferent (Sensory) Neurons |
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| Continiuously monitor conditions in internal and external environment. |
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| Neurons (basic signaling units of nervous system) and Glial cells (support cells) |
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| receive incoming signals. Increase the surface area of neurons so that several of them can communicate at one time. |
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| Carry outgoing information. Originate from axon hillock. |
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| Neurons that lie entirely within the CNS. |
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| Long axons of afferent and efferent peripheral neurons bundled together into cord-like fibers. They extend from the CNS to the targets of cocmpnents neurons. They can carry afferents and/or efferents. |
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| Wraps around the axon several times. |
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| Pushed to outside of myelin sheath. |
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| Consists of multiple layers of cell membrane. |
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