Hair plexus
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A hair plexus or root hair plexus is a special group of
nerve fiber endings and serves as a very sensitive mechanoreceptor for touch sensation. Each hair plexus forms a network around a hair follicle and is a receptor, which means it sends and receives nerve impulses to and from the brain when the hair moves.[citation needed
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sensory nerve fiber ends that, in skin with hair, create a plexus around a hair follicle. They are
spinocervical tract, which is located in the posterior part of the lateral funiculus and terminates in the lateral cervical nucleus.[1] The plexus acts as a receptor.[citation needed
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References
- ^ Nolte, John. Nolte’s The Human Brain E-Book: An Introduction to its Functional Anatomy. Elsevier Health Sciences, 2015.
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