spinal nerve root
Noun
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One of two roots of the spinal nerves (synset 105256763)
is a type of: nervus spinalis, spinal nerve - any of the 31 pairs of nerves emerging from each side of the spinal cord (each attached to the cord by two roots: ventral and dorsal)has:
- anterior horn, anterior root, ventral horn, ventral root - one of the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes ventrally from the spinal cord and that consists of motor fibers
- dorsal horn, dorsal root, posterior horn, posterior root - one of two roots of a spinal nerve that passes dorsally from the spinal cord and that consists of sensory fibers
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