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Spinal nerves are called mixed nerves because they all carry motor, sensory, and autonomic signals between the spinal cord and the body.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoBecause they contain both sensory and motor fibers.
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∙ 10y agoA spinal nerve which carries motor, sensory, and autonomic signals between the spinal cord and the body.
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∙ 11y agoI think its in reference to the sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves which interact with them.
Mixed nerves have PSymp and Symp nerves
others have just PS or S alone
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What nerves are involved in diplopia?
The nerves involved in diplopia include three cranial nerves: the oculomotor nerve (third cranial nerve), the abducens nerve (sixth cranial nerve), and the trochlear nerve (fourth cranial nerve).
What is the nerve IV of the cranial nerves?
Cranial nerve 4 (IV) is the trochlear nerve.
What is the five primary taste qualities and the cranial nerves that serve the sense of Taste?
Taste Qualities: Sweet Sour Salty Bitter Umami Cranial Nerves: Facial Nerve Glossopharyngeal Nerve Vagus Nerve
Cranial nerves that have some function in vision include the?
Optic nerve and occulomotor nerve
What nerves carry signals to and from the eyes and ears?
The oculomotor nerve or the third cranial nerve, trochlear or forth cranial nerve and abducent or the sixth cranial nerve carry signal to your eye. The optic nerve carry the signal from the eye to the brain. Vestibulocochlear or the eighth cranial nerve carry the signal from your ear to the brain.
What nerves are involved in diplopia?
The nerves involved in diplopia include three cranial nerves: the oculomotor nerve (third cranial nerve), the abducens nerve (sixth cranial nerve), and the trochlear nerve (fourth cranial nerve).
How many cranial nerves carry both sensory and motor impulses?
Five cranial nerves are mixed or sensorimotor nerves:Trigeminal Nerve (V)Facial Nerve (VII)Glossopharyngeal Nerve (IX)Vagus Nerve (X)Accessory Nerve (XI)
What is the nerve IV of the cranial nerves?
Cranial nerve 4 (IV) is the trochlear nerve.
How many nerves are in your eyes?
Each eye has one nerve for vision, the optic nerve, Cranial Nerve II. Nerves are actually bundles of many nerve fibers. There are nerves that supply impulses for the muscles associated with the eyeballs so they can move are the Cranial Nerve III, Oculomotor, Cranial Nerve IV, Trochlear, and Cranial Nerve VI, the Abducens nerve.
What are the cranial nerves involved in the corneal reflex?
It is the 7th cranial nerve (facial nerve).
What is nerve that contains filbers that both send and receive messages is called?
It is called a Mixed Nerve Example- all spinal nerves, and cranial nerves V, VII, IX, X.
What is the function of cranial nerves?
cranial nerve I: olfactory:smell cranial nerve II:optic:vision cranial nerve III: oculomotor: 4 of 6 eye muscles cranial nerve IV: trochlear: cranial nerve V: Trigeminal cranial nerve VI: Abducens cranial nerve VII: Facial cranial nerve VIII: Vestibulochlear: hearing cranial nerve IX: Grosspharnxgeal: saliva formation cranial nerve X: Vegus cranial nerve XI: Acessory Spinal: trapizious movement cranial nerve XII: Hypoglosseal: toungue movement
Which cranial nerve supplies the thumb?
It is not one of the cranial nerves (I-XII), it is cervical nerve number 6.
What is the nerve for smell?
The olfactory nerves are cranial nerves( arise from the brain ). olfactory nerve is the first nerve among the all cranial nerves. olfactory nerves passes sense of smell through nerve impulses( chemical=neurotransmitters, and electrical signals ).
Which cranial nerve is responsible for the sense of hearing?
olfactory
What cranial nerves are involved in the ossicles of the ear?
Cranial nerve VIII - vestibulocochlear
What are name of the nerves that found in the nervous system?
There are different types of nerves in the human body namely: the cranial nerves, the spinal nerves, the sympathetic nerves, and the encephalon nerves just but to mention a few. Examples of these nerves includes: the optic nerve, the facial nerve, the vagus nerve, the thoracic nerve, and accessory nerve.
