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nervous system act as specialized conductors of impulses that enable the body to interact with it's internal and external environments. |
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acts of supporting tissue. |
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receives impulses from throughout the body |
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governs sensory perception, emotions, consciousness, memory and voluntary movements. |
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conducts sensory impulses to the brain and motor impulses from the brain to the body parts. |
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peripheral nervous system |
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links the central nervous system with other parts of the body. |
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autonomic nervous system ( sympathetic division and parasympathetic devision) |
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controls involuntary body functions such as sweating. |
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is a single elongated process, the axon of a neuron, |
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the peripheral nervous system |
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are wrapped by protective membranes call sheaths |
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peripheral nervous system. |
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