ANATOMY&PHYSIOLOGY FOR NURSES

Nervous Tissue.The nervous tissue consists of three kinds of matter, (a) grey matter, forming the nerve cells, (b) white matter, the nerve fibres, and (c) neuroglia a special kind of supports nerve cells and fibres. Nerve cells are composed of highly specialised granular protoplasm, with large nuclei and cell walls as other cells. Various processes arise from the nerve cells; these processes carry the nerve impulses to and from the nerve cells.