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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Either of the two roots of a spinal nerve, consisting of motor fibers and arising from the anterior section of the spinal cord.
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- noun one of two the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes ventrally from the spinal cord and that consists of motor fibers
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