Discriminative touch
Pain and temperature
Proprioception
Fiber diameter:
Ab
Ad and C
Aa, or I and II
Receptor types:
Meissner's corp., Pacinian corp., Merkel's disks, Ruffini endings
free nerve endings
muscle spindles,

Golgi tendon organ, joint afferents
Tract with primary afferents, for the legs:
gracile fasciculus
Lissauer's tract
gracile fasciculus
for the arms:
cuneate fasciculus
Lissauer's tract
cuneate fasciculus
for the face:
spinal tract of V
Location of first synapse, legs:
gracile nucleus
dorsal horn, lumbar levels
Clarke's nucleus
arms:
cuneate nucleus
dorsal horn, cervical levels
lateral (external) cuneate nucleus
face:
main sensory nucleus of V
spinal nucleus of V (caudalis)
motor nucleus of V
Location of crossing, legs:
medulla
lumbar cord
arms:
medulla
cervical cord
face:
pons
caudal medulla
Name of secondary afferent tract:
medial lemniscus
spinothalamic tract
spinocerebellar tract
Target of secondary afferents, body:
VPL
VPL, periaqueductal grey, reticular formation
cerebellum
face:
VPM
VPM, periaqueductal grey, reticular formation

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