Pilomotor nerve

A nerve which supplies the arrector pili muscles attached to hair follicles.


Sympathetic nerves that supply muscle fibers in the skin, around the roots of hairs. Activity of the sympathetic nervous system cause the muscles to contract, raising the hairs and giving the ‘gooseflesh’ effect of fear or cold.


A motor nerve that innervates the arrectores pilorum muscles of hair follicles.


 


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