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  2. Afferent nerve fiber - Wikipedia

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    Ad and ex give an mnemonic device for remembering the relationship between afferent and efferent : afferent connection arrives and an efferent connection exits. [6] Another mnemonic device used for remembering afferent and efferent (in terms of the spinal cord, with its dorsal/ventral organization) is SAME DAVE.

  3. Efferent nerve fiber - Wikipedia

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    A bundle of these fibers constitute an efferent nerve. [1] The opposite direction of neural activity is afferent conduction, [2] [3] [4] which carries impulses by way of the afferent nerve fibers of sensory neurons. In the nervous system, there is a "closed loop" system of sensation, decision, and reactions.

  4. General visceral afferent fiber - Wikipedia

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    In the abdomen, general visceral afferent fibers usually accompany sympathetic efferent fibers. This means that a signal traveling in an afferent fiber will begin at sensory receptors in the afferent fiber's target organ, travel up to the ganglion where the sympathetic efferent fiber synapses, continue back along a splanchnic nerve from the ganglion into the sympathetic trunk, move into a ...

  5. Accommodation reflex - Wikipedia

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    Three regions make up the accommodation neural circuit, the afferent limb, the efferent limb and the ocular motor neurons that are between the afferent and efferent limb. The afferent limb of the circuit This limb contains the main structures; the retina that contains the retinal ganglion axons in the optic nerve, chiasm and tract, the lateral ...

  6. Projection fiber - Wikipedia

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    Projection fibers consist of efferent and afferent fibers uniting the cortex with the lower parts of the brain and with the spinal cord.In human neuroanatomy, bundles of axons (nerve fibers) called nerve tracts, within the brain, can be categorized by their function into association tracts, projection tracts, and commissural tracts.

  7. Sensory nerve - Wikipedia

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    A sensory nerve, or afferent nerve, is an anatomic term for a nerve that contains exclusively afferent nerve fibers. [1] Nerves containing also motor fibers are called mixed . Afferent nerve fibers in a sensory nerve carry sensory information toward the central nervous system (CNS) from different sensory receptors of sensory neurons in the ...

  8. General visceral efferent fiber - Wikipedia

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    General visceral efferent fibers (GVE), visceral efferents or autonomic efferents are the efferent nerve fibers of the autonomic nervous system (also known as the visceral efferent nervous system) that provide motor innervation to smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, and glands (contrast with special visceral efferent (SVE) fibers) through postganglionic varicosities.

  9. General somatic afferent fiber - Wikipedia

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    Sympathetic efferent. 6,7. Autonomic afferent. Anatomical terminology [edit on Wikidata] The general somatic afferent fibers (GSA or somatic sensory fibers) ...