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sensory fiber
Function:
- sensory fibers carry sensory information from the periphery to the brain
Structure:
- one of many nerve fibers often traveling with motor fibers in a peripheral nerve
- the sensory nerve fibers are projections of bipolar neurons with cell bodies outside of the central nervous system in dorsal root ganglia
- afferent projections of the bipolar neurons synapse in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord
Specific
visceral sensory nerve
General
nerve fiber