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nervous regulation
vocab words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| regulation | the process where a living thing control and coordinates activities |
| Irritability | ability that living organism have to respond to change in their environment |
| Impulse | the change of movement |
| response | a reaction as that of an organism by the immune system to a pathogen |
| receptor | protein that detects a signal molecules and performs an action in response |
| neuron | cell of the nervous system that transmits impulses between the body as well as interprets and stores some messages in the brain |
| effector | an organ or cell acts in response to stimulus |
| cell body | the nucleus -containing central part part of neuron its axons and dendrites |
| dendrites | branchlike extension of a neuron receives impulse from neighboring neuron |
| axon | long extension of the neuron membrane that carries impulse from one neuron to another |
| meninges | the three membrane that line the skull and verteral canal |
| cerebrum | largest part of the brain |
| cerebellum | part of the brain the coordinates and regulation voluntary muscle movement |
| medulla oblongata | the spinal cord ,lowest part of the brain stem and hearts and lungs |
| Central nervous system | that message from other nerves body and spinal cord and brain |
| peripheral nervous system | that transmits impulse between the central nervous system and other organs in the body |
| Neurotransmitter | chemical that transmitter a nervous system signal across a synapse |
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