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noun
Any of the 31 paired nerves that originate from the spinal cord.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, neuroanatomy, neurology, neuroscience, sciences
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noun
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)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: nervus spinalis
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Broader terms: nerve, nervus
Narrower terms: femoral nerve, nervus femoralis, anterior crural nerve, phrenic nerve, nervus phrenicus, cervical nerve, coccygeal nerve, nervus coccygeus, lumbar nerve, sacral nerve, thoracic nerve
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