ventral root

ventral root

n.

Either of the two roots of a spinal nerve, consisting of motor fibers and arising from the anterior section of the spinal cord.

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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 anterior horn, anterior root, ventral horn efferent, efferent nerve, motor nerve - a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands 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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