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What will be an ideal response?
A mixed nerve would be the most devastating to damage as it contains both sensory and motor neurons. A damaged mixed nerve could potentially impair both sensation and movement to some degree. Sensory nerves contain only sensory neurons while motor nerves contain mostly motor neurons (with a small population of sensory neurons). Damage to a sensory nerve would only affect sensation while damage to a motor nerve would primarily affect movement of specific muscles.
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