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        | GENERAL SOMATIC EFFERENT motor to somatic voluntary skeletal muscle (derived from somites)
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        | GENERAL SOMATIC AFFERENT sensory to skin, joints, muscle, and tendon receptor endings, nasal and oral cavity
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        | GENERAL VISCERAL EFFERENT Autonomic Efferents motor to smoth muscles in general, and smooth muscles of skin (arrector pilae muscles) and blood vessels, secretomotor to glands |  | 
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        | GENERAL VISCERAL AFFERENT sensory to gut and its derivatives, pharynx, blood vessels, glands and internal organs
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        | SPECIAL SOMATIC AFFERENT special senses of vision, auditory snesation and vestibular apparatus
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        | SPECIAL VISCERAL AFFERENTS chemical senses of taste, and by analogy--smell
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        | SPECIAL VISCERAL EFFERENTS motor to voluntary skeletal muscles derived from branchial arches (these develop in association with pharynx, which is rostral end of gut and therefore visceral)
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