the sensory nervous system and arise from outside of the central nervous system. Sensory and mixed nerves contain afferent fibers.

Structure

Afferent neurons are pseudounipolar neurons that have a single process leaving the cell body dividing into two branches: the long one towards the sensory organ, and the short one toward the central nervous system (e.g. spinal cord).These cells do have sensory afferent dendrites,

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