VENTRAL HORN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ventral horn mean? 

• VENTRAL HORN (noun)
  The noun VENTRAL HORN has 1 sense:

1. one of the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes ventrally from the spinal cord and that consists of motor fibers

  Familiarity information: VENTRAL HORN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VENTRAL HORN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes ventrally from the spinal cord and that consists of motor fibers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

anterior horn; anterior root; ventral horn; ventral root

Hypernyms ("ventral horn" is a kind of...):

efferent; efferent nerve; motor nerve (a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands)

Holonyms ("ventral horn" is a part of...):

spinal nerve root (one of two roots of the spinal nerves)

 Context examples 

When stretching occurs, the sensory neuron from the muscle spindle signals the motor neurons located within the ventral horn of the spinal cord.

(Muscle Spindle, NCI Thesaurus)

The proprioceptive sensory neuron of a Golgi tendon organ, projects to the motor neurons located within the ventral horn of the spinal cord, where the inhibition occurs.

(Golgi Tendon Organ, NCI Thesaurus)