motor nerve

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motor nerve - a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands efferent, efferent nerve anterior horn, anterior root, ventral horn, ventral root - one of two the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes ventrally from the spinal cord and that consists of motor fibers efferent neuron, motoneuron, motor nerve fiber, motor neuron - a neuron conducting impulses outwards from the brain or spinal cord nerve, nervus - any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body efferent fiber, motor fiber - a nerve fiber that carries impulses toward the muscles or glands corticospinal tract, pyramidal motor system, pyramidal tract - any of the important motor nerves on each side of the central nervous system that run from the sensorimotor areas of the cortex through the brainstem to motor neurons of the cranial nerve nuclei and the ventral root of the spinal cord