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Motor nerves

Motor nerves are the nerves responsible for all voluntary skeletal and somatic movement such…

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Sensory nerves send messages from the muscles to the spinal cord and the brain.

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Autonomic nerves control involuntary or semi-voluntary functions, such as heart rate, blood pressure, digestion,…

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