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Law of Facilitation |
When an impulse has passed once through a certain set of neurons, it will tend to take the same courses on future occasions; each time transverse this path, resistance will be smaller |
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Sherrington's Law |
Every posterior spinal nerve root supplies a special region of the skin which is invaded above and below by fibers of the adjacent spinal segments |
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Hilton's Law |
A nerve trunk that supplies a joint also supplies the muscles of the joint and skin over the insertions of those muscles. Each nerve root serves blood vessels, organs and glands. Ex: excitation to a diseased gallbladder may excite the muscles overlying the area interacted by the same nerve that serves the organ. |
