A zone of skin that is mainly innervated by a single sensory nerve. A nerve field innervated by exactly one dorsal root is called a dermatome. [ http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 ]
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- Wikipedia:Peripheral_nerve_field
- FMA:80301
- SCTID:244023005
- Wikipedia:Dermatome_(anatomy)
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Examples: V1, V2 and V3 distributions of the trigeminal nerve; the zone of skin innervated by S2
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