Peripheral Nervous System

• it consists of the brain, spinal cord, snensory organs, and all of the nerves that connect these organs with the rest of the body

• it is something that causes a reaction

• it is how your body handles a stimulis

• a structure on the surface of a cell (or inside a cell) that selectively receives and bins a specific substance

• a region where nerves are transmitted and received

• a neuron receives an impulse and must pass it on to the next neuron and make sure the correct impulse continues on

• it is how messages get sent to other neurons

• it receives nerve messages

• brain to spinal cord

• sensory neurons to motor neurons

• brain and spinal cord muscles

• PNS controls the involuntary actions. One group of nerves controls what starts and another controls group controls what stops

• part of the PNS controls, voluntary actions