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ventral funiculus
noun
Medical Definition of ventral funiculus
: a longitudinal division on each side of the spinal cord comprising white matter between the anterior median fissure and the ventral root Their axons descend in the lateral and ventral funiculi and terminate on motor neurons or on interneurons that project to motor neurons within the spinal gray matter.—Marion Murray, in Neuroscience in Medicine, 3rd edition, 2010—called also anterior funiculus; compare lateral funiculus, posterior funiculus
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