HyperDic: posterior_root

English > 1 sense of the expression posterior root:
NOUNbodyposterior root, dorsal root, dorsal horn, posterior hornone of the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes dorsally to the spinal cord and that consists of sensory fibers
English > posterior root: 1 sense > noun 1, body
MeaningOne of the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes dorsally to the spinal cord and that consists of sensory fibers.
Synonymsdorsal root, dorsal horn, posterior horn
Part ofspinal nerve rootOne of two roots of the spinal nerves
Broadersensory nerve, afferent nerve, afferentA nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system

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