Nerve that carries sensory information toward the central nervous system
Sensory nerve
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Identifiers
Latin
nervus sensorius
TA98
A14.2.00.022
TA2
6132
FMA
5868
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy
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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 peripheral nervous system.
A motor nerve carries information from the CNS to the PNS.
Afferent nerve fibers link the sensory neurons throughout the body, in pathways to the relevant processing circuits in the central nervous system.[2]
Afferent nerve fibers are often paired with efferent nerve fibers from the motor neurons (that travel from the CNS to the PNS), in mixed nerves. Stimuli cause nerve impulses in the receptors and alter the potentials, which is known as sensory transduction.[3]
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