SPINAL NERVE ROOT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of two roots of the spinal nerves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("spinal nerve root" is a kind 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))

Meronyms (parts of "spinal nerve root"):

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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