innervations

Neural pathway connections

Innervations are the supplies of nerves to body parts or organs.

The term describes both the anatomical arrangement of nerves and the process by which nerve impulses reach tissues: The innervation of the heart controls its rhythm.

In physiology, innervation determines how muscles receive signals to contract and how sensory information travels to the brain.

anatomical

nerves

Tense apprehension

  • musclesContractile body tissue
  • fibersThreadlike structural strands
  • motorEnergy-to-motion converter

sensory · axons · dendrites · ganglia · synapses · tissue · peripheral · spinal · cranial · autonomic

physiological

contraction

Reduction in size

response · signaling · transmission · excitation · motor · function · control · regulation · movement · voluntary

medical

paralysis

Loss of muscle function

neuropathy · damage · regeneration · atrophy · diagnosis · denervation · lesion · compression · injury · deficit

Opposites
nerve supply vs. absence

innervationsdenervation

Loss of nerve supply

deafferentation · numbness · anesthesia · paralysis · insensitivity

neural activity state

innervationsdenervation

Loss of nerve supply

paralysis · muscle relaxation · atony · flaccidity

anatomical supply type

innervationsvascularization

Formation of blood vessels

blood supply · vasculature · perfusions · circulation · perfusion

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