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the what? root of a spinal nerve consists of motor neuron axons
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What root of a spinal nerve consists of motor neuron axons?
Ventralventral root
Why are spinal nerves mixed nerves?
Spinal nerves are said to be mixes because their posterior roots contain sensory axons and their anterior roots contain motor axons.
Fiber type in anterior ramus?
alpha spinal motor neuron axons leave the spinal column and enter the nerves via the ventral rami.
What is a motor neuron attached to?
A Motor neuron is a neuron that carries impulses from the spinal cord to muscle cells.A Motor neuron is a neuron that carries impulses from the spinal cord to muscle cells.
Where is the motor neuron located?
The motor neuron cells are all in the brain and the spinal cord.
What are the first and last elements in a spinal reflex?
motor neuron and sensory neuron
What does motor nuerons do?
Ultimately a motor neuron is involved in the pathway of sending information from your brain to your muscles, thus allowing your brain to control the movements of your body. As an analogy, think of your computer and the printer to which it is attached. The computer is your brain, the printer is the muscle that needs to perform an action, and the cable connecting the two is the motor neuron.A neuron is a cell in the central nervous system that has a cell body and a very long extension called an axon. There are two levels of motor neurons in your body, the upper motor neuron and the lower motor neuron. The upper motor neurons originate from the cortex of the brain and project their axons down to the spinal cord to terminate in the ventral horns of the spinal cord. The ventral horn in the spinal cord is a column of grey matter located towards the front (or the ventral side) in the spinal cord. In the ventral horn of the spinal cord, the axons of the upper motor neurons synapse with lower motor neurons, whose cell bodies are located in the ventral horn. The lower motor neurons then have axons that exit the spinal cord and leave through nerve roots, to the peripheral nerves of your body, and eventually to the muscles that control your movement. Some of the lower motor neurons that control facial movement are located in the brainstem and not the spinal cord.Motor neurons can also be classified functionally by what they do, i.e. general somatic efferent neurons, general visceral efferent motor neurons, or special visceral efferent motor neurons.This can get much more complicated when we take into account the amount of descending input from the brain, brainstem, and cerebellum; and the integration that occurs at the level of the lower motor neuron cell body. Most simplistically, the function of the motor neuron is to transmit the message from the brain to the muscle.Diseases of motor neurons, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and spinal muscular atrophy, can be very serious and currently have no cure.
Define relay neuron?
a relay neuron is the neuron that picks up the message from the sensory neuron and delivers it to the motor neuron in the spinal cord or the brain
What is the function of relay neuron?
A relay neuron is the neuron that picks up the message from the sensory neuron and delivers it to the motor neuron in the spinal cord then to the brain.
Which would be found in the anterior root of a thoracic spinal nerve?
somatic motor axons
Where is the motor neuron cell located?
The motor neuron cells are all in the brain and the spinal cord.
What is the neuron inside the spinal cord?
Alpha motor neurons (α-MNs) are large lower motor neurons of the brainstem and spinal cord.
