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motor nerve

DEFINITIONS OF: motor nerve

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n a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands

Synonyms:
efferent, efferent nerve
Types:
anterior horn, anterior root, ventral horn, ventral root
one of two the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes ventrally from the spinal cord and that consists of motor fibers
corticospinal tract, pyramidal motor system, pyramidal tract
any of the important motor nerves on each side of the central nervous system that run from the sensorimotor areas of the cortex through the brainstem to motor neurons of the cranial nerve nuclei and the ventral root of the spinal cord
Type of:
nerve, nervus
any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body
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