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Control Systems

Human Body-Your Body's Control Systems

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Another name for a neuron nerve cell
Light receptors sensitive to color cones
Part of the CNS skipped during a reflex action brain
Part of the brain that controls body temperature hypothalamus
Largest part of the brain cerebrum
Light receptors at the back of the eye retina
Controls the amount of glucose in the blood pancreas
Rods in the eye are sensitive to (3) shape, movement, light
Part of the brain that allows you to think cerebrum
5 parts of a nerve cell dendrite, cell body, nucleus, axon, myelin sheath
Stores extra glucose that cells cannot use liver
a sense that is most closely linked to the sense of taste smell
auditory sense organ ear
Gap between nerve cells synapse
Part of the brain that reacts immediately when a person is in danger hypothalamus
Blinking, coughing, sneezing reflexes
Tissue or organ that releases hormones into the blood stream endocrine gland
Releases insulin pancreas
Be able to identify the location of these parts of a neuron... dendrite, cell body, axon, myelin sheath, axon terminal, synapse
Controls breathing brain stem
One of the main sources of energy for the body glucose
Long, tail-like part of a nerve cell axon
Sense organ for vision eye
Part of a nerve cell that collects information from other nerve cells dendrite
Be able to identify the location of these parts of a brain... cerebrum, cerebellum, hypothalamus, brain stem
Sensory neurons... pass messages from sensory receptors to the brain.
Motor neurons... exit the brain, send nerve impulses to the muscles and glands
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