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Make A Neuron
Make A Neuron
Dendrite
Nerve impulses are generated here
Look like short bers
Cell Body
Houses the nucleus and other organelles
Makes everything for cell
It may take up to 2 weeks for material to reach the axon terminals
Nucleus
Cell brain
Axon
hairlike extension that conducts impulses
can be a meter long
Myelin Sheath
Fatty sheath
plasma membrane covering cell
Schwann cell
Accessory cell
Node of Ranvier
propagates the nerve impulse
when one schwann cell meets another it is unprotected
Axon Terminal
Create Synapses
the connection between 2 nerve cells