Nervous System Pre-Test

Match the following neurologic structures with their meanings:

axon cerebral cortex meninges oligodendroglia

cauda equina dendrite myelin sheath plexus

1) Three protective membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord _______________________

2) Microscopic fiber that carries the nervous impulse along a nerve cell ______________________

3) A large, interlacing network of nerves _______________________________________________

4) Branching fiber that is first part of a neuron to receive a nervous impulse ___________________

5) Protective fatty tissue that surrounds the axon of a nerve cell ____________________________

6) Collection of spinal nerves below the end of the spinal cord _____________________________

7) Glial cell that produces myelin ____________________________________________________

8) Outer region of the largest part of the brain; composed of gray matter
______________________