peripheral nerve

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Introduction

One or more bundles of nerve fibers passing outside of the CNS along which sensory information is conveyed from the periphery to the CNS &/or motor instructions are carried to the periphery by electrical impulses in the form of action potentials.

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References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999