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 information
- FMA:5979
- ZFA:0000705
- Wikipedia:Anterior_root_of_spinal_nerve
- NLXANAT:20090209
- FMA:77516
- NCIT:C33860
- BTO:0000865
- UMLS:C0205956 (ncithesaurus:Ventral_Nerve_Root)
- neuronames:2620
- BAMS:vr
- TAO:0000705
- BAMS:vrt
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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].
FMA:77516 xref is a 'general anatomical term'. We xref both to ensure equivalence.
root ventralis nervi spinalis
ventral spinal nerve root
root motoria nervi spinalis
radix motoria (nervus spinalis)
motor spinal root
ventral root of spinal nerve
ventral roots
anterior root of spinal nerve
spinal nerve ventral root
anterior root
radix anterior (nervus spinalis)
anterior nerve root
radix anterior nervi spinalis
motor root of spinal nerve