nervous system
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- Created on: 26-04-19 23:01
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- The Nervous System
- Key Terms
- Nervous system
- Consists of the CNS and the PNS
- Central nervous system
- consists of the brain and spinal cord
- Peripheral nervous system
- sends information to the CNS from the outside world
- transmits messages from the CNS to the glands and muscles in the body
- Somatic nervous system
- transmits information from receptor cells in the sense organs to the CNS, it also receives information from the CNS and directs muscles to act
- Autonomic nervous system
- transmits information to and from internal body organs
- it is an involuntary system
- Nervous system
- AO1
- the nervous system is a specialised network of cells in the human body and is the primary internal communication system
- the nervous system has two main functions: to collect, process and respond to information and to co- ordinate the working of different organs and cells in the body
- How the systems connect
- The nervous system
- Peripheral nervous system
- Autonomic nervous system
- Sympathetic nervous system
- Para - sympathetic nervous system
- Somatic nervous system
- Autonomic nervous system
- The central nervous system
- The brain
- The spinal cord
- Peripheral nervous system
- The nervous system
- Key Terms
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