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thoracic nerve

DEFINITIONS OF: thoracic nerve

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n any of twelve pairs of spinal nerves emerging from the thoracic region of the spinal cord

Type 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)
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