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  2. 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 ...

  3. Sensory nervous system - Wikipedia

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    The sensory nervous system is a part of the nervous system responsible for processing sensory information. A sensory system consists of sensory neurons (including the sensory receptor cells), neural pathways, and parts of the brain involved in sensory perception and interoception. Commonly recognized sensory systems are those for vision ...

  4. Sensory neuron - Wikipedia

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    Four types of sensory neuron. Sensory neurons, also known as afferent neurons, are neurons in the nervous system, that convert a specific type of stimulus, via their receptors, into action potentials or graded receptor potentials. [1] This process is called sensory transduction.

  5. Afferent nerve fiber - Wikipedia

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    Nervous system organization - the motor and sensory systems. Afferent neurons are pseudounipolar neurons that have a single process leaving the cell body dividing into two branches: the long one towards the sensory organ, and the short one toward the central nervous system (e.g. spinal cord).

  6. Table of cranial nerves - Wikipedia

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    Both sensory and motor Pons: Three Parts: V 1 (ophthalmic nerve) is located in the superior orbital fissure V 2 (maxillary nerve) is located in the foramen rotundum. V 3 (mandibular nerve) is located in the foramen ovale. Receives sensation from the face, mouth and nasal cavity, and innervates the muscles of mastication. VI Abducens: Mainly motor

  7. Motor nerve - Wikipedia

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    Efferent nerves can also connect to glands or other organs/issues instead of muscles (and so motor nerves are not equivalent to efferent nerves). [2] [3] The vast majority of nerves contain both sensory and motor fibers and are therefore called mixed nerves. [4]

  8. Cranial nerves - Wikipedia

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    Sensory ganglia exist for nerves with sensory function: V, VII, VIII, IX, X. [2] There are also a number of parasympathetic cranial nerve ganglia. Sympathetic ganglia supplying the head and neck reside in the upper regions of the sympathetic trunk, and do not belong to the cranial nerves. [10] The ganglion of the sensory nerves, which are ...

  9. List of nerves of the human body - Wikipedia

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    Distribution of the areas of the sensory roots upon the surface of the body. Structure of the nervous system; Development of the nervous system; The spinal cord or medulla spinalis; The brain or encephalon The hindbrain or rhombencephalon; The midbrain or mesencephalon; The forebrain or prosencephalon; Composition and central connections of the ...