spinal nerve

spinal nerve

n.

Any of the nerves that arise in pairs from the spinal cord. There are 31 pairs of spinal nerves in the human body.

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spinal nerve

Any of the nerves that arise in pairs from the spinal cord and form an important part of the peripheral nervous system. The spinal nerves contain both sensory and motor nerve fibers. There are 31 pairs of spinal nerves in the human body.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

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) nervus spinalis dorsal horn, dorsal root - one of the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes dorsally to the spinal cord and that consists of sensory fibers 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 nerve, nervus - any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body anterior crural nerve, femoral nerve, nervus femoralis - one of a pair of nerves that originate from lumbar nerves and supply the muscles and skin of the anterior part of the thigh nervus phrenicus, phrenic nerve - one of a pair of nerves that arises from cervical spinal roots and passes down the thorax to innervate the diaphragm and control breathing cervical nerve - any of eight pairs of spinal nerves emerging from the cervical section of the spinal cord coccygeal nerve, nervus coccygeus - the lowest pair of spinal nerves lumbar nerve - any of five pairs of spinal nerves emerging from the lumbar section of the spinal cord sacral nerve - any of five pairs of spinal nerves emerging from the sacral region of the spinal cord thoracic nerve - any of twelve pairs of spinal nerves emerging from the thoracic region of the spinal cord