PNS EXAM REVIEW FUNCTION/ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, GRADED A+/[LATEST EXAM UPDATES]
PNS EXAM REVIEW FUNCTION/ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, GRADED A+/ peripheral nervous system - -send and receives impulses to and from the central nervous system three types of nerves in the PNS - -sensory nerves, motor nerves, mixed nerves sensory, afferent nerves - -carry impulses TOWARD the CNS , contain only dendrites, of sensory neurons motor, efferent nerves - -carry impulses AWAY from the CNS, are made only of axons of motor neurons mixed nerves - -have both afferent and efferent fibers, allows nerves to send impulses back and forth, contain both dendrites and axons cranial nerves - -nerves that originate from the brain spinal nerves - -nerves that originate from the spinal cord cranial nerves - -12 pairs, some are sensory, mixed, and motor. all but one cranial nerve is concerned with the head,neck, and face vagus nerve - -serves the internal organs of the body spinal nerves - -all mixed nerves, the spinal ne
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