Sensory or afferent division
Conduct impulse from receptors to CNS.
detect various sensation such as pain, heat.
Consist of nerve fibers that convey impulse to CNS from sensory receptor located throughout body.
Sensory fibers conveying impulse from skin, skeletal muscles and joints are called somatic afferent fibers.
Sensory fibers that transmitting impulses from visceral organs called visceral afferent fibers.
Sensory division transmit message towards CNS and constantly informed of events going on both inside and outside the body.
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