- IMAGE OF NEURON
-
DIVISIONSOF NERVOUS SYSTEM
-
PERIPHERAL N.S
- 31 SPINAL NERVE PAIRS
- 12 CRANIAL + GANGLIA + NERVE PLEXUSES PAIRS
- CONNECTIVE TISSUE SUPPORT
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CENTRAL N.S
-
BRAIN
- CEREBRAL HEMISPHERE AND EVERYTHING BETWEEN IT
- PONS
-
MEDULLA OBLONGATA
- MOST INFERIOR
- M.O RUNS CAUDALLY
- NO CONNECTIVE TISSUE SUPPORT
-
AUTONOMIC N.S
-
VICERA
- ORGANS OTHER THAN BRAIN
- INVOLUNTARY MUSCLE
- GLANDS
- LIES PARTLY WITHIN AND PARTLY OUTSIDE CNS
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CELLS OF NERVOUS SYSTEM
-
NERVE CELLS
- IMPULES CONDUCTION
- FUNCTIONAL CARACTARISTICS OF NERVOUS TISSUE
- 14 THOUSAND MILLION IN N.S
- NEUROGLIAL
-
USUAL CELLS
- FORMS WALLS OF BLOOD VESSELS
-
ANATOMY OF NERVE CELLS
-
DENDRITES
- SHORT
- BRANCH EFFECT
- MAJOR PART OF RECEPTOR
-
SEVERAL DENDRITES
- MULTIPOLAR IN SHAPE
-
NERVE CELL
- SINGLE LONG PROCESS
-
AXON
- MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE INSULATION
-
GREY MATTER
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COMPOSSED OF:
- CELL BODIES OF NEURONS
- SURROUNDED BY TERMINALS ARRIVING FROM NERVE CELLS ELSEWHERE
-
WHITE MATTER
- LONG PROCESS
- MANY HAS MEYLIN SHEATH
- NERVE FIBRES
-
WHITE AND GREY MATTER
- INTERSTRIAL MATERIAL OF CNS
- MAY INFLUENCE IONIC COMPOSITION OF EXTRACELLULAR FLUID SURROUNDING NERVE CELLS
-
NEUROGIAL CATAGORY
-
MACROGLIA
-
ASTROCYTES
- REPAIRS INJURIES
- OLIGODENDROCYTES
- MICROGLIA
-
ANATOMY:
- INCLUDE EPENDYMAL LAYER (LINING MEMBRANE)
- FUNCTION UNKNOWN
- SCHWANN + OLIGODENDROCYTES = FORMATION OF MEYLIN SHEATH
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TERMS USED IN NEUROANATOMY
-
SYNAPSE
- SHERRINGTON 1897
- NO JOINING OF CYTOPLASM OF 2 NEURONS
- INTERFACE EXIST
-
FORMS
- SIMPLE APPOSITION
- COMPLEX
-
NERVE IMPULSE
-
SURFACE
- PROPEGATED IN ANY DIRECTION
-
PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION
- CONSTANT POLARITY @ SYNAPSE
- TRANSMISSION FROM AXON TO CELL BODY OF DIFFERENT NEURON
-
NEURAXIS
-
HEAD / ROSTRAL END
- ASCENDING FIBRES
-
TAIL / CAUDAL END
- DESCENDING FIBRES
-
ANATOMY
- DURING DEVELOPMENT FOLDING OCCURS
- CHANGES POSITION OF DIFFERENT COMPONENTS OF CNS