The ________________ nervous system communicates sensory information received by sense organ receptors to the central nervous system and carries messages from the central nervous system along motor nerves to the muscles.

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• _________________ carries sensory information via afferent nerve fibers from receptors throughout the body to the brain and conducts information via efferent nerve fibers from the brain to muscles and glands.
• __________________ division of the nervous system that includes all the nerves lying outside the central nervous system.
• _________________ usually communicates inhibitory messages to other neurons and helps balance and offset excitatory messages.
• The ____________ nervous system has two subdivisions, the autonomic nervous system and somatic nervous system.
• ___________________ is the long, thin, blunt sensory receptors that are highly sensitive to light but not color and are primarily responsible for peripheral vision and night vision.
• _________________ is the specialized sensory receptors for taste that are located on the tongue and inside the mouth and the throat.
• The central nervous system is a major division of the nervous system and consists of the brain and _________________.
• ____________________ refers to the point at which a stimulus is strong enough to be detected by activating sensory receptors.
• Peripheral nervous system is connected to the central nervous system and most of these connections are made via
• _______________ is the primary internal communication network of the body; divided into the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system.