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Sensory nerve

Known as: afferent nerves, nerve sensory, Nervus sensorius 
General anatomical term applied to nerves in which somatic afferent nerve fibers predominate.
National Institutes of Health

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Afferent PathwaysAfferent neuronDisorder of the optic nerve

Broader (3)

NervePeripheral Nervous Systemsensory pathway

Narrower (4)

Optic Nervecutaneous sensory nervesomatic afferent nervevisceral afferent nerve

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Review
1992
Review
1992
Relation between systemic hypertension and pain perception.
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Significance of H1 and H2 receptors in the human nose: rationale for topical use of combined antihistamine preparations.
Review
1981
Review
1981
Muscle receptors with fine afferent fibers which may evoke circulatory reflexes.
The majority of afferent nerve fibers in mammalian skeletal muscle are thin myelinated (A delta or group III) and unmyelinated (C… 
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Evidence that bicuculline and picrotoxin act at separate sites to antagonize γ-aminobutyric acid in rat cuneate nucleus
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Nociceptive threshold after neonatal capsaicin treatment.
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
Neurotransmitter synthesis in inner ear and lateral line sense organs
HAIR cells of inner ear sense organs and of lateral line organs in fish are innervated by afferent nerve fibres, to which they… 
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Cutaneous reflexes in small muscles of the hand
A study has been made of the responses of motoneurones innervating small muscles of the hand to electrical and mechanical… 
Highly Cited
1966
Highly Cited
1966
Algebraical summation in synaptic activation of motoneurones firing within the ‘primary range’ to injected currents
1. In intracellular studies of cat lumbar motoneurones constant synaptic stimuli such as stretch, contraction or a high‐frequency… 
Highly Cited
1959
Highly Cited
1959
Sensory nerves of the cornea and cutaneous sensibility.
Highly Cited
1950
Highly Cited
1950
Action potentials from a sensory nerve ending
The initiation of sensory impulses presents a series of problems: (a) the transmission of the stimulus from its external source… 
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