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Somatic and Autonomic

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somatic sensory neuron   receives sensory information from skin, skeletal muscles, joints, and special senses (vision, hearing, etc.)  
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somatic motor neuron   sends nerve impulses to skeletal muscle  
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preganglionic autonomic motor neuron   sends nerve impulses to a ganglionic motor neuron  
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ganglionic autonomic motor neuron   sends nerve impulses to smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, and glands.  
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visceral sensory neuron   receives sensory information from blood vessels and smooth muscle in the viscera  
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SNS   a single lower motor neuron axon extends uninterrupted from the spinal cord to one or more muscle fibers.  
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ANS   -2 neuron chain to innervate muscles and glands -preganglionic and post ganglionic neuron  
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preganglionic neuron   -first neuron in the ANS pathway -second neuron neuron in pathway is ganglionic neuron  
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postganglionic axon   extends from its cell body to effector (target) cells  
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ganglion   group of nerve cell bodies in the peripheral NS  
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