NUTS AND BOLTS to get started
Location Terms Superior-inferior Medial- lateral Dorsal-ventral Rostral-Caudal…Anterior/Posterior
Planes of orientation
Dorsal Fin
The basic unit of the nervous system
White matter and gray matter
Staining for myelin in the brain coronal section
Staining for cell bodies in the brain-coronal section
Let’s begin with the PNS
The vertebral column
Each segment is similar
Dorsal = sensory Ventral = motor
Each vertebra houses a spinal cord segment
And the column collectively gives rise to 31 peripheral nerve pairs
Each nerve pair contains thousands of incoming and outgoing axons
motor output to skeletal muscles
And somatosensory input
The other subdivision of the PNS-the ANS
The sympathetic chain
Sympathetic activation may be magnified by adrenal gland