| General somatic afferent fibers | |
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 Scheme showing structure of a typical spinal nerve. 1.Somatic efferent. 2. Somatic afferent. 3,4,5.Sympathetic efferent. 6,7.Autonomic afferent. | |
| Anatomical terminology |
Thegeneral somatic afferent fibers (GSA orsomatic sensory fibers) areafferent fibers that arise fromneurons in sensory ganglia and are found in all thespinal nerves, except occasionally the first cervical. General somatic afferents conduct impulses ofpain,touch andtemperature from the surface of the body through thedorsal roots to thespinal cord, and impulses of muscle sense, tendon sense and joint sense from the deeper structures.[1]
This article incorporates text in thepublic domain frompage 849 of the 20th edition ofGray's Anatomy(1918)
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