SACRAL NERVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sacral nerve mean? 

• SACRAL NERVE (noun)
  The noun SACRAL NERVE has 1 sense:

1. any of five pairs of spinal nerves emerging from the sacral region of the spinal cord

  Familiarity information: SACRAL NERVE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SACRAL NERVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of five pairs of spinal nerves emerging from the sacral region of the spinal cord

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("sacral nerve" is a kind of...):

nervus 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))

 Context examples 

A series of nerves within the pelvis formed mostly by the extension of the hypogastric plexus and branches from the second, third and fourth sacral nerves.

(Inferior Hypogastric Nerve Plexus, NCI Thesaurus)