| NOUN | body | spinal nerve root | one of two roots of the spinal nerves |
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| Meaning | One of two roots of the spinal nerves. | |
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| Parts | dorsal root, dorsal horn, posterior root, posterior horn | One of the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes dorsally to the spinal cord and that consists of sensory fibers |
| ventral root, ventral horn, anterior root, anterior horn | One of two the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes ventrally from the spinal cord and that consists of motor fibers | |
| Broader | spinal nerve, nervus spinalis | Any of the 31 pairs of nerves emerging from each side of the spinal cord (each attached to the cord by two roots |
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