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Nervous System
Nervous System
Chapters 14
Anatomy 32
The peripheral nervous system and its subdivisions
The PNS includes all nervous structures found outside the CNS. It requires
Three components: sensory receptors (pick up stimuli and send signals to
CNS), motor endings (axons synapse with effectors like muscle and glands),
and nerves and ganglia (neurons and cell bodies outside of CNS). Note that
almost all nerves are mixed, meaning theycarry both sensory and motor
neurons. Receptors can be classified by location, stimulus detected, or
structure