sensory nerves
Body's input wiring
Sensory nerves carry signals from the body to the brain and spinal cord—information about touch, temperature, pain, and position.
They're distinguished from motor nerves, which carry commands in the opposite direction.
The dentist numbed the sensory nerves before drilling.
Damage to sensory nerves can cause numbness, tingling, or chronic pain.
- dorsal root gangliaSensory neuron cell clusters
- sensory receptorsCells converting stimuli to signals
- cranial nervesTwelve brainstem-emerging neural pairs
- spinal nervesPaired vertebral neural branches
- Meissner corpusclesNerve endings detecting light touch
neuropathy · chemoreceptors · baroreceptors · mechanoreceptors · photoreceptors · peripheral nerves · dermatomes · sensory adaptation · paresthesia · proprioceptors · action potential · prickling · feeling · sensory input · numbness · touch · dermis · tingling
- nervous systembrain, neurons, nerves, spinal cord, axon
- nervesperipheral nerves, cranial nerves, spinal nerves, motor nerves, spinal cord
- Neuromuscularmotor neuron, motor cortex, motor control, acetylcholine, skeletal muscle
- sensory receptorsmechanoreceptors, pain receptors, chemoreceptors, proprioceptors, baroreceptors