neurone, specialised nerve cells that the brain and spinal cord are made of, synapsis, individual neurones meet at junctions, nervous system, the system of the body that uses neurones to coordinate and regulate body functions, reflex, an automatic response to a stimulus, neurotransmitter, molecules that can cross the synaptic gap between two neurones, sense organ, an organ that responds to a stimulus by causing an electrical impulse in sensory neurone, endocrine gland, an organ that produces a hormone, hormone, a chemical substance produced by an endocrine gland and carried by the blood, wich alters the activity of one or more specific target organs, homeostasis, the maintenance of a constant internal environment, reflex arc, the pathway of neurones that an electrical impulse follows during a reflex response

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