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dorsal root

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dorsal root
n.
The more posterior of the two nerve fiber bundles of a spinal nerve that carries sensory information to the central nervous system.
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Noun1.dorsal root - one of the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes dorsally to the spinal cord and that consists of sensory fibers
dorsal horn
afferent, afferent nerve, sensory nerve - a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system
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)


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