Cells of the nervous system exhibit an extraordinary diversity in shape, size, and number of unique interactions with other cells. Diverse cell types are organized into assemblies and patterns and those specialized components are integrated into a physiology of the whole organ. The stereotypical image...
Glial cells perform a variety of functions in the central nervous system and make up 50% of CNS by volume, and 95-98% by numbers. Neurons are the "active" or functional cells of the nervous system and carry electrical signals. Glial cells are small supporting cells that do not carry elec...
neuronal plexus in the wall of the esophagus that is part of the enteric nervous system extraocular muscles six skeletal muscles that control eye movement within the orbit facial nerve seventh cranial nerve; responsible for contraction of the facial muscles and for part of the sense of taste, as...
Why It Matters: The Nervous SystemWhy describe the components and role of the nervous system? When you’re reading this book, your nervous system is performing several functions simultaneously. The visual system is processing what is seen on the page; the motor system controls the turn of the...
nervous system in Biology topic From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishˈnervous ˌsystem noun [countable] your nerves, brain, and spinal cord, with which your body feels pain, heat etc and your movements are controlledExamples from the Corpus...
nervous system James Horton James Horton holds a PhD in evolutionary biology from the University of Bath in the U.K. and has been writing about science since 2016. His work has been featured in The Conversation UK and BBC Future, and he’s been an interviewee on Spark podcast on Canadi...
Understanding the nervous system has been a long journey of inquiry, spanning several hundreds of years of meticulous studies carried out by some of the most creative and versatile investigators in the fields of philosophy, evolution, biology, physiology, anatomy, neurology, neuroscience, cognitive sci...
The human nervous system is comprised of the Central Nervous System (CNS) and the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS). Table of Contents The nervous system is essentially a biological information highway, and is responsible for controlling all the biological processes and movement in the body, and ca...
Autonomic Nervous System Automatically or “occurring involuntarily” Regulates body’s vital functions: –Heartbeat, Breathing, Digestion, Blood Pressure Psychologists are interested in ANS b/c of its involvement in emotion 2 parts ...
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