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ventral root of spinal cord

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The ventral roots contain efferent motor axons. Similar to the dorsal roots, the ventral roots continue out from the spinal column, and meet and mix with their corresponding dorsal nerve root at a point after the ganglion. [ NLXANAT:20090209 ]

Synonyms: ventral spinal root, anterior spinal root

Term info

database cross reference
  • FMA:77516
  • neuronames:2620
  • BTO:0000865
  • TAO:0000705
  • BAMS:vrt
  • UMLS:C0205956 (ncithesaurus:Ventral_Nerve_Root)
  • ZFA:0000705
  • BAMS:vr
  • NLXANAT:20090209
  • Wikipedia:Anterior_root_of_spinal_nerve
  • NCIT:C33860
  • FMA:5979
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uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core

UBPROP 0000001

The efferent motor root of a spinal nerve. At its distal end, the ventral root joins with the dorsal root to form a mixed spinal nerve[Wikipedia:Anterior_root_of_spinal_nerve].

UBPROP 0000012

FMA:77516 xref is a 'general anatomical term'. We xref both to ensure equivalence.

depicted by

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Spinal_nerve.svg

has related synonym

root ventralis nervi spinalis, ventral spinal nerve root, root motoria nervi spinalis, ventral root of spinal nerve, motor spinal root, radix motoria (nervus spinalis), ventral roots, anterior root of spinal nerve, anterior root, spinal nerve ventral root, radix anterior (nervus spinalis), anterior nerve root, radix anterior nervi spinalis, motor root of spinal nerve

has broad synonym

ventral root

id

UBERON:0002260

prefLabel

Anterior root of spinal nerve, Ventral root

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