Group C nerve fibers are one of three classes of nerve fiber in the central nervous system (CNS) and peripheral nervous system (PNS). The C group fibers...
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are the group B nerve fibers, and the group C nerve fibers. Group A are heavily myelinated, group B are moderately myelinated, and group C are unmyelinated...
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Axon (redirect from Nerve fiber)
central neurons. Nerve fibers are classed into three types – group A nerve fibers, group B nerve fibers, and group C nerve fibers. Groups A and B are myelinated...
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myelinated, which means less myelinated than group A nerve fibers, and more myelinated than group C nerve fibers. They have a medium conduction velocity of...
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A nerve is an enclosed, cable-like bundle of nerve fibers (called axons) in the peripheral nervous system. Nerves have historically been considered the...
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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...
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retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) or nerve fiber layer, stratum opticum, is part of the anatomy of the eye. The RNFL formed by the expansion of the fibers of...
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reason they are classified as ‘low-threshold mechanoreceptors’. As group C nerve fibers, they are unmyelinated and have slow conduction velocities. They...
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mandibular nerve supplies motor as well as sensory (or "cutaneous") functions. Adding to the complexity of this nerve is that autonomic nerve fibers as well...
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types of nerve fibers. Proprioceptors are innervated by type Ia, Ib and II sensory fibers, mechanoreceptors by type II and III sensory fibers, and nociceptors...
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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...
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The median nerve is a nerve in humans and other animals in the upper limb. It is one of the five main nerves originating from the brachial plexus. The...
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the medulla in the cranial root of the accessory nerve. Fibers cross over to and join the vagus nerve in the jugular foramen.: 86–88 Sensory cell bodies...
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cold and hyperalgesia because blocking A fiber conduction resulted in inhibition of a class of group C nerve fiber nociceptors needed to transduce the sensation...
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The long thoracic nerve traverses this passageway in addition to axillary blood vessels and the brachial plexus. This complex nerve network arises in...
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finding that the anterior spinal nerve roots contain only motor fibers and posterior roots only sensory fibers and that nerve impulses are conducted in only...
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composed of unmyelinated C-fibers (group C nerve fiber), and when stimulated cause pelvic pain. Prolonged stimulation of the C-fibers causes chronic inflammation...
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Corpus callosum (section Neuronal fibers)
also callosal commissure, is a wide, thick nerve tract, consisting of a flat bundle of commissural fibers, beneath the cerebral cortex in the brain. The...
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corticosteroid, and other agents onto or near a nerve. Neurolytic block, the deliberate temporary degeneration of nerve fibers through the application of chemicals...
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nerve fibers are affected. Neuropathies affecting motor, sensory, or autonomic nerve fibers result in different symptoms. More than one type of fiber...
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Nociceptor (redirect from Pain fibers)
experiments to demonstrate that different types of stimulation to an afferent nerve fiber's receptive field led to different responses. Some intense stimuli trigger...
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II fibers with free nerve endings are likely to be the subdivision of fibers that carry out this function. Group Aα of the type II sensory fiber is another...
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Parasympathetic nervous system (redirect from Parasympathetic nerve)
nerve, maxillary nerve, mandibular nerve). The vagus nerve (CN X) does not participate in these cranial ganglia as most of its parasympathetic fibers...
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A transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS or TNS) is a device that produces mild electric current to stimulate the nerves for therapeutic purposes...
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Neuromuscular junction (redirect from Nerve-Muscle Interface)
setting up an action potential in the muscle fiber which triggers muscle contraction. The transmission from nerve to muscle is so rapid because each quantum...
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Collagen fibrils, elastic fibers, microfibrils, nerve fibers, and smooth muscle cells were observed in the reticular fibers of the splenic cord. On the...
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"Nerves, fibers and homotopy groups". Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A. 102 (1): 88–93. doi:10.1016/S0097-3165(03)00015-3. ISSN 0097-3165. Nerve theorem...
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in combination with increased nerve sensitivity. Damage to the A beta fibers, A delta fibers, and group C nerve fibers was the cause of the burning sensation...
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Diabetic neuropathy (redirect from Diabetic Nerve Problems)
Longer nerve fibers are affected to a greater degree than shorter ones because nerve conduction velocity is slowed in proportion to a nerve's length....
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