The area of body surface innervated by a particular spinal nerve is called a:
a. dermatome.
b. nerve pathway.
c. spinal accessory area.
d. cutaneous zone.
A
The sensory and motor fibers of each spinal nerve supply and receive information to a segment of skin known as a dermatome. Nerve pathway and spinal accessory area refer to nerve routes. Cutaneous zone refers to a skin area that transmits fine mechanical information and normal ex-ogenous thermal information at the same time.
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