Search results for "Nerves" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • smiling through the use of efferent motor nerves, in contrast with the function ... of conscious control. It consists of nerves in cardiac muscle, smooth ...
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  • cord, whereas the PNS consists of the nerves and neurons that reside or ... system include neurons (nerve cells) and nerves. Neurons are typically composed ...
    10 KB (1,539 words) - 23:55, 3 December 2023
  • by both the anterior and posterior vagal nerves. It is found in the muscles ... The nerves of the small intestines are derived from the plexuses of ...
    10 KB (1,480 words) - 16:48, 27 March 2022
  • * Neurophysiology concerns the physiology of brains and nerves ... since plants do not have muscles and nerves, neither myophysiology nor ...
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  • branches, the tibial and common peroneal nerves. This division may take place ... space for the spinal cord, thus pinching nerves in the spinal cord that travel ...
    16 KB (2,375 words) - 17:22, 25 January 2023
  • system are neurons (nerve cells) and nerves. Neurons are typically composed ... peripheral nervous system consists of the nerves and neurons that reside or ...
    37 KB (5,767 words) - 21:40, 7 February 2023
  • lacking true tissues (parazoa), muscles, nerves, and internal organs. Although ... eye, cranial and sensory, the ganglia and nerves, pigment cells, head connective ...
    10 KB (1,511 words) - 18:03, 28 August 2021
  • of the medullary substance of the nerves, to account for which he postulated, with Newton, a subtle elastic ether, rare in the interstices of ...
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  • to do with the various ways the brain and optic nerves communicate. ==Applications== Beta movement is often seen in strings of decorative holiday ...
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  • system (PNS), consisting of all the nerves and neurons that reside or ... and ventral nerve cords, spinal cord, nerves, muscles, neurons (nerve ...
    20 KB (2,815 words) - 04:35, 11 March 2023
  • system (PNS), consisting of all the nerves and neurons that reside or ... coordinating system derives its name from nerves, which are cylindrical bundles ...
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  • of a nerve plexus (a network of interlacing nerves), which lies within as well as below the skin. The esophagus is also surrounded by a number of ...
    17 KB (2,546 words) - 04:39, 28 April 2023
  • to do with the various ways the brain and optic nerves communicate. ==Applications== The discovery of phi phenomena played a significant role ...
    6 KB (828 words) - 03:00, 24 November 2022
  • central organs) and nerve rings, with radiating nerves around the mouth extending into each arm. The branches of these nerves coordinate the movements ...
    11 KB (1,553 words) - 17:27, 11 October 2020
  • control (involuntarily) and consists of nerves in cardiac muscle, smooth ... In the somatic nervous system, acetylcholine acts between motor nerves ...
    16 KB (2,189 words) - 07:34, 14 June 2023
  • simplest animals to have one. Two cord-like nerves branch repeatedly in an array resembling a ladder. Flatworms have their sense receptors and nerves ...
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  • The sympathetic nervous system, acting via splanchnic nerves to the adrenal medulla, stimulates the release of epinephrine. Acetylcholine released ...
    13 KB (1,794 words) - 16:18, 15 February 2021
  • of the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves. Although the neuron is considered ... These PNS glia include Schwann cells, in nerves, and satellite cells, in ganglia. ...
    15 KB (2,279 words) - 07:55, 24 January 2023
  • of connective tissue, and contains sensory nerves, blood vessels, lymph channels ... as well as supplying it with blood vessels and nerves. ===Epidermis=== ...
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  • tissue with large blood vessels, lymphatics, and nerves branching into the mucosa and muscularis. It contains Meissner's plexus, an enteric nervous ...
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