The Neuron
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Sensory Neuron | carries messages from receptors to the spinal cord |
| Motor Neuron | Carries outgoing information from spinal cord to muscles and glands |
| Interneurons | within the brain or spinal cord that communicates internally and intervenes between the sensory inputs and motor outputs |
| dendrite | branching extentions of a neuron that recieve messages and conduct impulses toward the cell body |
| axon | the extention of a neuron, ending in branching terminal fibers, through which message pass to other neurons or to muscles or other glands |
| myelin sheath | a layer of fatty tissue segmentally encasing the fibers of many neurons; enables vastly greater transmission speed of neural impulses as the impulse hops from one node to the next |
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