GENERAL HISTOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -What happens when you accidentally touch a hot plate? Sensors on your finger get activated and the information is relayed via nerves to your spinal cord (nervous system), which decides to immediately jerk back the hand by sending a signal to the arm muscles.

Detailed explanation-2: -A somatic reflex is an involuntary response to a stimulus, such as pulling one’s hand away after touching a hot stove. The nervous system is split into the central nervous system (i.e., the brain and spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system (i.e., nervous system outside of the brain and spinal cord).

Detailed explanation-3: -For example, a simple reflex arc happens if we accidentally touch something hot. Receptor in the skin detects a stimulus (the change in temperature). Sensory neuron sends electrical impulses to a relay neuron, which is located in the spinal cord of the CNS.

Detailed explanation-4: -Spinal cord reflexes are simple behaviors produced by central nervous system (CNS) pathways that lie entirely within the spinal cord. The sensory afferent fibers that evoke these reflexes enter the spinal cord and activate spinal motor neurons directly or through a chain of one or more spinal interneurons.