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Keywords: Efferent, Axons, Spinal, Bundle, Motor

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The motor branch of a spinal nerve that connects with the spinal cord.

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The fiber bundle containing outgoing (efferent) motor axons exiting the spinal cord at each vertebral segment.

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Contains motor axons and supplies effector organs. Their cell bodies are in the intermediate and ventral gray matter of the spinal cord.

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Bundles of nerve fibres leaving the spinal cord, mostly carrying signals to the muscles.

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In anatomy and neurology, the ventral root (or anterior root) is the efferent motor root of a spinal nerve.

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