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nervus spinalis Meaning
nervus spinalis (n)
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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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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Nervus spinalis segmentales, or spinal nerves, form the peripheral nervous system's conduit between the brainstem and the rest of the body.
Each nervus spinalis has a dorsal root that carries sensory information to the central nervous system and a ventral root that carries motor information away from it.
The dorsal root ganglion of a nervus spinalis contains the cell bodies of sensory neurons.
The nervus spinalis exists in 31 pairs: 8 cervical, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar, 5 sacral, and 1 coccygeal.
