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dorsal horn
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | dorsal horn - one of the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes dorsally to the spinal cord and that consists of sensory fibersdorsal rootafferent, afferent nerve, sensory nerve - a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous systemnervus 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) |
dorsal horn
dorsal hornThe main column of neuron cell bodies and unmyelinated cell processes (ie, gray matter) running through the dorsal quadrant of each half of the spinal cord. In stained cross-sections of spinal cord, the gray matter forms the rough shape of a butterfly; the dorsal horns are the upper wings. Synonym: posterior horn See: spinal cordSee also: horndorsal horn
Related to dorsal horn: ventral horn, substantia gelatinosa, dorsal root ganglionSynonyms for dorsal hornnoun one of the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes dorsally to the spinal cord and that consists of sensory fibersSynonymsRelated Words- afferent
- afferent nerve
- sensory nerve
- nervus spinalis
- spinal nerve
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