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"Terms to Learn"

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Central Nervous System(CNS)   Nervous system that includes you brain, spinal cord, and medulla  
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Peripheral Nervous System(PNS)   Nervous system that includes your communication pathways, or nerves  
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Nerves   Axons bundled together with blood vessels and connective tissue  
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Neurons   Specialized cells that transfer messages throughout your body in the form of fast-moving electrical energy  
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Dendrites   Give information to neurons from these short branched extensions  
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Axon   How information is transmitted to other cells, a fiber  
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Axon Terminal   The tip of every branch on an axon  
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Impulses   Electrical messages that pass along the neurins  
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Receptors   Sensory Neurons that have specialized dendrites that detect changes inside and outside the body  
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Motor Neurons   Neurons that send impulses from the brain and spinal cord to other systems  
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Brain   Part of your CNS, the nervous systems largest organ, had 100s of different jobs  
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Cerebrum   Larges part of brain, where you think and where most memories are stored, it controls voluntary movements and allows you to detect touch, light, sound, odors, taste, pain, heat, and cold  
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Hemispheres   The two haves of the brain  
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Left Hemisphere   Controls right side of the body  
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Right Hemisphere   Controls left side of the body  
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Cerebellum   Part of brain that receives sensory impulses from skeletal muscles and joints  
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Medulla   Part of brain that connects the brain to the spinal cord  
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Vertebrae   Rounded protective bones that surround the spinal cord  
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Reflex   A quick involuntary action  
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