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anterior horn

NOUN
  1. one of the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes ventrally from the spinal cord and that consists of motor fibers

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  • It consists of a base, directly continuous with the base of the anterior horn, and a neck or slightly constricted portion, which is succeeded by an oval or fusiform area, termed the head, of which the apex approaches the posterolateral sulcus. IX. Neurology. 3. The Spinal Cord or Medulla Spinalis
  • The principal ganglionic neurons receive the synaptic output of the preganglionic motor fibers in the splanchnic nerves, which originate in the anterior horn cells.
  • Objective To study the protective effects of Schwann cell derived neurotrophic factor (SDNF) on motoneurons of spinal anterior horn from spinal root avulsion induced cell death.
  • In this microphotograph of the anterior horn region of spinal cord, you see one of the characteristic findings of polio in its early stages - perivascular infiltrates of neutrophils.
  • The anterior cornu (cornu anterius; anterior horn; precornu) (Fig. 736) passes forward and lateralward, with a slight inclination downward, from the interventricular foramen into the frontal lobe, curving around the anterior end of the caudate nucleus. IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon
  • Objective: To study the dead number of spinal cord anterior horn motor neurons following sciatic nerve injury in adult rats.
  • They may be stellate in the anterior horn of the spinal cord or flask-shaped, as in the Purkinje cells of the cerebellum.
  • The anterior horn of the transplanted meniscus was then sutured to the native meniscus with No. braided nonabsorbable sutures through the arthrotomy.
  • Electromyography may show short-duration, small-amplitude, polyphasic motor units with an increased terminal innervation ratio (number of fibers innervated by a single anterior horn cell).
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