cutaneous branch of mixed nerve

cutaneous branch of mixed nerve

[TA]

branch of a mixed spinal nerve (or its derivatives) innervating skin; such branches would convey mostly somatic sensory but also visceral motor fibers (postsynaptic sympathetic fibers for vasomotion and pilomotion).

Synonym(s): ramus cutaneus nervi mixti [TA]

cu·ta·ne·ous branch of mix·ed nerve

(kyū-tā'nē-ŭs branch mikst nĕrv) [TA]

Branch of a mixed spinal nerve (or its derivatives) innervating skin; such branches convey mostly somatic sensory but also visceral motor fibers (postsynaptic sympathetic fibers for vasomotion and pilomotion).