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| A motor division of the nervous system that supplies nerves to glands, smooth muscle and cardiac muscle; functions largely without voluntary control |
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| A division of the nervous system that include afferent fibers mainly from the skin, muscles, and skeleton and efferent fibers to the skeletal muscles |
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| Carry signals toward the CNS |
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| conducts signals away from the CNS |
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| parasympathetic nervous system |
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| specifically is responsible for stimulation of "rest-and-digest" activities that occur when the body is at rest, including sexual arousal, salivation, lacrimation (tears), urination, digestion and defecation. Contains chiefly cholinergic fibers. |
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| Pertaining to the skin, bones and skeletal muscles as opposed to the viscera. |
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| sympathetic nervous system |
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the part of the autonomic nervous system that is concerned especially with preparing the body to react to situations of stress or emergency. Contains chiefly adrenergic fibers.
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| the parasympathetic fibers that involve acetylcholine. |
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| The sympathetic postganglionic fibers that secrete norepinephrine. |
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| receptors for norepinephrine |
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| alpha adrenergic receptors |
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| Usually have excitatory effects |
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| beta adrenergic receptors |
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