Terms
Anterior horn cell (noun) – A somatic motor neuron has its cell body in the ventral (anterior) horn of the gray matter of the spinal cord; its axon passes out through a ventral root and innervates the skeletal muscle.
Axons (noun) – The long threadlike part of a nerve cell along which impulses are conducted from the cell body to other cells.
Communication (noun) – The imparting or exchanging of information or news.
Discs (noun) – A layer of cartilage separating adjacent vertebrae in the spine.
Distributed (adjective) – Spread out or scattered about or divided up.
Electrical signals (noun) – Electrical signals are transmitted between segments of the axon by the successive opening of channels down the axonal membrane, with negative or positive charge fluxing on either side of the membrane through selectively permeable chlorine, sodium or potassium channels.
Endoneurium (noun) – The delicate connective tissue around individual nerve fibers in the nerve
Epineurium (noun) – the outermost layer of dense irregular connective tissue surrounding a peripheral nerve.
Fascicles (noun) – A bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers)
Innervation (verb) – Supply nerves to (some organ or body part)
Instruction (noun) – Detailed information telling how something should be done, operated or assembled.
Interprets (verb) – To explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions).
Perineurium (noun) – The sheath of connective tissue that covers a bundle of nerve fibers.
Sensory organ (noun) – An organ of the body that responds to external stimuli by conveying impulses to the sensory nervous system.
Vertebrae (noun) – each of the series of small bones forming the backbone, having several projections for articulation and muscle attachment, and a hole through which the spinal cord passes.