spinal nerve

spinal nerve

noun

Definition of SPINAL NERVE

: any of the paired nerves which leave the spinal cord of a craniate vertebrate, supply muscles of the trunk and limbs, and connect with the nerves of the sympathetic nervous system, which arise by a short motor ventral root and a short sensory dorsal root, and of which there are 31 pairs in humans

First Known Use of SPINAL NERVE

circa 1793

Rhymes with SPINAL NERVE

facial nerve, in reserve, learning curve, normal curve, optic nerve, unreserve