Afferent nerve fibers are axons (nerve fibers) of sensory neurons that carry sensory information from sensory receptors to the central nervous system...

sensory nerve, or afferent nerve, is an anatomic term for a nerve that contains exclusively afferent nerve fibers. Nerves containing also motor fibers are...

fibers constitute an efferent nerve. The opposite direction of neural activity is afferent conduction, which carries impulses by way of the afferent nerve...

A type Ia sensory fiber, or a primary afferent fiber, is a type of afferent nerve fiber. It is the sensory fiber of a stretch receptor called the muscle...

neurons), such as those for touch and warmth, the axons are called afferent nerve fibers and the electrical impulse travels along these from the periphery...

A free nerve ending (FNE) or bare nerve ending, is an unspecialized, afferent nerve fiber sending its signal to a sensory neuron. Afferent in this case...

somatic afferent fibers where the two meet in the posterior grey column. The cranial nerves that contain GVA fibers include the glossopharyngeal nerve (CN...

system are called nerves, and bundles of afferent fibers are known as sensory nerves. An efferent nerve fiber conducts signals from a motor neuron in the...

vagus nerve (/ˈveɪ.ɡəs/), also known as the tenth cranial nerve, cranial nerve X, or simply CN X, is a cranial nerve that carries sensory fibers that create...

sensation. C fibers are one class of nerve fiber found in the nerves of the somatic sensory system. They are afferent fibers, conveying input signals from the...

carrying afferent nerve fibers, which relay sensation from the body to the central nervous system (CNS), and nerves carrying efferent nerve fibers, which...

Special somatic afferent fibers (SSA) are the afferent nerve fibers that carry information from the special senses of vision, hearing and balance. The...

the spinal cord. The sensory information travels on the afferent nerve fibers in a sensory nerve, to the brain via the spinal cord. Spinal nerves transmit...

somatic reflex, nerve signals travel along the following pathway: Somatic receptors in the skin, muscles and tendons Afferent nerve fibers carry signals...

A motor nerve, or efferent nerve, is a nerve that contains exclusively efferent nerve fibers and transmits motor signals from the central nervous system...

deeper structures. Afferent nerve General visceral afferent fiber (GVA) Special somatic afferent fiber (SSA) Special visceral afferent fiber (SVA) This article...

vessels that supply the nephrons Afferent lymphatic vessels, lymph vessels that carry lymph to a lymph node Afferent nerve fiber, an axonal projection that...

fibers relating to the sense of smell. The afferent nerve fibers of the olfactory receptor neurons transmit nerve impulses about odors to the central nervous...

Special visceral afferent fibers (SVA) are afferent fibers that develop in association with the gastrointestinal tract. They carry the special sense of...

nerve fibers are one of the three classes of nerve fiber as generally classified by Erlanger and Gasser. The other two classes are the group B nerve fibers...

trigeminal nerve (ophthalmic nerve, maxillary nerve) which contain only afferent fibers, the mandibular nerve contains both afferent and efferent fibers. These...

general visceral afferent fibers and preganglionic nerve fibers of the autonomic nervous system. They are used in Bainbridge reflex as afferents.[citation needed]...

the anterior belly of the digastric. The trigeminal nerve carries general somatic afferent fibers (GSA), which innervate the skin of the face via ophthalmic...

somatic afferent fibers. Nerve fibers for taste are supplied by the chorda tympani branch of the facial nerve via special visceral afferent fibers. The main...

anterior (closer to the nose) to the vagus nerve. Being a mixed nerve (sensorimotor), it carries afferent sensory and efferent motor information. The...

area of skin that is mainly supplied by afferent nerve fibres from the dorsal root of any given spinal nerve. There are 8 cervical nerves (C1 being an...

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together. The optic disc in a normal human eye carries 1–1.2 million afferent nerve fibers from the eye toward the brain. The optic disc is also the entry...

A mixed nerve is any nerve that contains both sensory (afferent) and motor (efferent nerve fibers). All 31 pairs of spinal nerves are mixed nerves. Four...

bone. The vestibulocochlear nerve carries axons of type special somatic afferent. Damage to the vestibulocochlear nerve may cause the following symptoms:...