Tissue and Brain - The Human
Body in Health and Illness 2026
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Central Nervous System (CNS) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔contains the brain and the
spinal cord
Peripheral Nervous System - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔consist of nerves that connect
the brain and the spinal cord with the rest of the body
Motor nerves - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔nerves that carry out the plans made by the
CNS; also described as efferent nerves
, Sensory nerves - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔nerves that gather information from the
environment and carry it to the CNS; also described as afferent nerves
Integrative function - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔has the decision-making capability;
the processing and interpretation of information by the cells of the CNS
Which type of nerve cell does not undergo mitosis? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Neuron
Astrocyte - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Common type of glial cell that supports and
protects the neurons; helps form the blood-brain barrier
Ependymal cells - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔type of glial cell that lines the inside
cavities of the brain; helps form the cerebrospinal fluid
Schwann cells - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔glial cells that form the myelin sheath in
the peripheral nervous system
Ganglia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔clusters of cell bodies located in the peripheral
nervous system
Nuclei - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Clusters of cell bodies located within the CNS
Microglia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔glial cells that engage in phagocytosis of
pathogens and damaged tissue