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NUTS AND BOLTS to get started. Planes and terms. Superior-inferior Medial- lateral Dorsal-ventral Rostral-Caudal. Coronal or Frontal Planes. The basic unit of the nervous system. Similarity to other cells. Shwann cells vs Oligodendrocytes. White matter and gray matter.
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Planes and terms • Superior-inferior • Medial- lateral • Dorsal-ventral • Rostral-Caudal
And the column collectively gives rise to 30 peripheral nerve pairs
Each nerve pair contains thousands of incoming and outgoing axons
The Somatic Branch of the PNS • - Provides all somatosensory information to the central nervous system (brain)
The Somatic Branch of the PNS relays motor output to skeletal muscles (Not smooth muscle)