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    The somatic nervous system (SNS) is made up of nerves that link the brain and spinal cord to voluntary or skeletal muscles that are under conscious control...
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    exposed to toxins. The peripheral nervous system can be divided into the somatic nervous system and the visceral nervous system. Each of these have a sensory...
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  • line cells Somatic cell, a non-gametic cell in a multicellular organism Somatic nervous system, the portion of the vertebrate nervous system which regulates...
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    the somatic nervous system which provides voluntary control. The autonomic nervous system has been classically divided into the sympathetic nervous system...
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  • viscera. It is also used in the term somatic nervous system, which is the portion of the vertebrate nervous system that regulates voluntary movements of...
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    Classification of peripheral nerves (category Peripheral nervous system)
    peripheral nervous system (PNS) groups the nerves into two main groups, the somatic and the autonomic nervous systems. Together, these two systems provide...
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  • autonomic and somatic nervous system. The autonomic nervous system can be divided into the parasympathetic, sympathetic, and enteric nervous system. The sympathetic...
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    nervous system. In the somatic nervous system, this includes dorsal root ganglia and trigeminal ganglia among a few others. In the autonomic nervous system...
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    central nervous system (CNS), α motor neurons are also considered part of the somatic nervous system—a branch of the peripheral nervous system (PNS)—because...
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    nerves in somatic nervous system which innervate skeletal muscles as well as nerves in the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. Organs that...
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