Term plexus: motor and sensory?

[airrick16]

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Is the term 'nerve plexus' used to describe joined neuron processes of motor (efferent) division only ,,,,OR is it also used to describe sensory (afferent) neurons/nerves?

If the later is true, can one plexus (nerve bundle) have sensory and motor neurons within it,,,running side by side?

 

[YA7ES]

Yes, the second option is correct. Nerve plexuses (at least the brachial) are both motor and sensory... for example the musculocutaneous nerve does motor to the flexors of the arm, and the medial cutaneous brachial nerve does the sensory to the flexor compartment of the arm. Both nerves are part of the brachial plexus.

I think you may be confusing plexuses and ganglions. It is my understand that ganglions are either sensory or motor, but not both.