The Nervous System

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. A workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be (7)
  2. 6. Any bundle of ___ fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body (plural) (6)
  3. 7. A cellular structure that is postulated to exist in order to mediate between a chemical agent (plural) (9)
  4. 10. The part of the ___ continuous with the spinal cord and comprising the medulla oblongata and pons (9)
  5. 13. A connection allowing access between persons or places (13)

Down

  1. 1. That part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers (5)
  2. 3. A cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses (plural) (7)
  3. 4. Anterior portion of the brain consisting of two hemispheres (8)
  4. 5. A major division of the vertebrate brain (10)
  5. 8. A major part of the central nervous system which conducts sensory and motor nerve impulses to (10)
  6. 9. Any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message (plural) (7)
  7. 11. Electronic equipment external to the circuit board that contains the CPU of a computer (10)
  8. 12. A relation of constraint of one entity by another (7)