Nervous Tissue

These flashcards cover essential vocabulary related to nervous tissue and neuron functions as described in the lecture notes.

Dendrites

The part of a neuron that conducts nerve impulses toward the cell body.

Interneurons

Neurons that carry nerve impulses between sensory neurons and motor neurons.

Bipolar neuron

Neurons with one dendrite and one axon.

Node of Ranvier

Unmyelinated gaps between segments of the myelin sheath.

Oligodendrocytes

Neuroglial cells that produce a myelin sheath around axons of neurons in the central nervous system.

Effector

The muscle or gland that responds to a motor impulse in the reflex arc.

Synapse

The functional contact between two neurons or between a neuron and an effector.

Reticular formation circuit

The circuit that likely plays a role in breathing, waking up, sleeping, and short-term memory.