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Neuroscience

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Anterior/ Rostral

The head/ front

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Posteriur/ caudal

tail/ back

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superior

above

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inferior

below

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proximal

center/ near neuroaxis

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distal

Away from center

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dorsol

The back

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Ventral

Belly/ Bottom of the skull

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Cranial

Human only top of head

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rostrum

nose

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ante

before

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neuroaxis

axis of the CNS

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Lateral

side

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Contralateral

Opposite side

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Ipsilateral

Same side

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Bilateral

Both sides

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Unilateral

One side

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Medial

Middle

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Sagittal plane

Bisects body left and right

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Coronal plane

Cut into front/back

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Horizonal plane/ transverse plane

Top/bottom

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Neurons

Basic unit of nevous system

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glial cell

non neuronal cell. Support cell

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How many neurons in an adult

roughly 90 billion

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recetive

sensory neurons. Receive/ send signals

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Interneruons

Between sensory and motor neurons

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Multipolar

many dendrites one axon

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Bipolar

1 dendrite and 1 axon

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unipolar

dendrite bypasses cell body directly to axon

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