Studied by 6 people
Anterior/ Rostral
The head/ front
Posteriur/ caudal
tail/ back
superior
above
inferior
below
proximal
center/ near neuroaxis
distal
Away from center
dorsol
The back
Ventral
Belly/ Bottom of the skull
Cranial
Human only top of head
rostrum
nose
ante
before
neuroaxis
axis of the CNS
Lateral
side
Contralateral
Opposite side
Ipsilateral
Same side
Bilateral
Both sides
Unilateral
One side
Medial
Middle
Sagittal plane
Bisects body left and right
Coronal plane
Cut into front/back
Horizonal plane/ transverse plane
Top/bottom
Neurons
Basic unit of nevous system
glial cell
non neuronal cell. Support cell
How many neurons in an adult
roughly 90 billion
recetive
sensory neurons. Receive/ send signals
Interneruons
Between sensory and motor neurons
Multipolar
many dendrites one axon
Bipolar
1 dendrite and 1 axon
unipolar
dendrite bypasses cell body directly to axon
Note
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