title: Mixed nerve
text: # Mixed nerve
  
  A mixed nerve is any nerve that contains both sensory (afferent) and motor (efferent) nerve fibres. All spinal nerves are mixed nerves. Some cranial nerves are mixed nerves.
  
  ## Examples
  
  * Spinal nerves
     * Suprascapular nerve
     * Pudendal nerve
     * Obturator nerve
     * Femoral nerve
     * Sciatic nerve
  
  ### Cranial nerves
  
  * Trigeminal nerve (CN V)
  * Facial nerve (CN VII)
  * Glossopharyngeal nerve (CN IX)
  * Vagus nerve (CN X)
  