Vocabulary Review for Bones, Muscles, and Nerves

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Vocabulary Review for Bones, Muscles, and Nerves
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• Produces red and white blood cells

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• Bone marrow

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• Attaches bones to each other

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• ligaments

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• Attaches bones to muscles

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• Tendons

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• Line digestive organs and blood vessels

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• Smooth Muscles

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• Make up the walls of the heart

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• Cardiac Muscles

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• Are where the bones meet to attach to each other
  and to muscles

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• Joints

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• Is made up of the brain and the spinal cord.

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• Central Nervous System

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• Are nerve cells that detect conditions in the
  bodys environment.

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• Receptors

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• Are the cells that nerves are made of

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• Neurons

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• Branch out of the nerve cell and receive signals
  from other cells

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• Dendrites

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• Is the part of the neuron that carries signals
  and transmits them to other neurons

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• axon

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• Is a gap between the axon of one neuron and the
  dendrite of the next neuron.

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• synapse