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Why are neuron called a motor neuron?

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What connects the motor neurons to the sensory neurons?

What connects sensory and motor neuron is the impulse called interneuron or connector neuron are connected by means of electrical impulse called synape from sensory to motor neuron.


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A neuron is called a inter-neuron because that specific neuron takes impulse from one neuron to a next neuron. For example your sensory neuron sends a impulse that you had felt a hot object. It goes through the spine to a inter-neuron to a motor neuron (this processes is called a reflex). Then the motor neuron tells your muscles in your hand to move


What motor neuron and all the muscle fibers it innervates called?

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A motor neuron and the muscle fibers it controls are called?

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A motor neuron and all of the skeletal muscle cells it stimulates is called a?

It is called a motor unit.


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What is the end of a motor neuron called?

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What connects sensory to motor neuron?

Interneurons(also called relay neuron, association neuron, connector neuron or local circuit neuron) are multipolar neurons that connects sensory neurons to motor neurons.


What is the name of a neuron that transmits neural impulse from the sensory neuron to the motor neuron?

A relay neurone passes impulses from a sensory neurone to a motor neurone.


What is a single motor neuron with all the muscles cells it innervates?

This is called a motor unit.


An autonomic motor neuron whose cell body lies in the CNS is called a?

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