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Dendrites –
2 Types of Nerve Cells
1) Glial cells – ________ conducting, involved with structural
______________ and ________________________
2) Neurons – ______________ impulses, functional units, 3 types
1. Sensory neurons (_____________)  clusters called _______
Sense & relay stimuli from ____________________ to ______
2. Interneurons (association neurons)  In brain & spinal cord.
______________ & ________________ sensory stimuli.
________________ afferent & efferent neurons
3. Motor neurons (efferent)  ____________ information to the
_______________ ex. muscles, glands. organs
Cell body –
Nucleus –
Axon –
Schwann cells – (a type of glial cell)
Myelin sheath –
Nodes of Ranvier –
Axon terminals -
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