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Nervous system

Key-term glossary of the nervous system, taken word for word from OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology, first edition: neurons and nervous tissue, the anatomy of the brain and spinal cord, and the autonomic division. Each card carries a term on the front and the book’s own definition on the back.

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  • Front abducens nerve
    Back sixth cranial nerve; responsible for contraction of one of the extraocular muscles
  • Front activation gate
    Back part of the voltage-gated Na+ channel that opens when the membrane voltage reaches threshold
  • Front afferent branch
    Back component of a reflex arc that represents the input from a sensory neuron, for either a special or general sense
  • Front alar plate
    Back developmental region of the spinal cord that gives rise to the posterior horn of the gray matter
  • Front anterior column
    Back white matter between the anterior horns of the spinal cord composed of many different groups of axons of both ascending and descending tracts

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Source : https://openstax.org/books/anatomy-and-physiology/pages/preface — Licence : Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source
OpenStax — Anatomy and Physiology (first edition)
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Topic
Biology and medicine
Language
English
Version
3
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