| Nerve: Dorsal ramus of spinal nerve | |
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| Diagram of the course and branches of a typical intercostal nerve. (Posterior division labeled at upper right. ) | |
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| Areas of distribution of the cutaneous branches of the posterior divisions of the spinal nerves. The areas of the medial branches are in black, those of the lateral in red. | |
| Latin | ramus posterior nervi spinalis |
| Gray's | subject #209 921 |
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The posterior (or dorsal) branches (or divisions) of the spinal nerves are as a rule smaller than the anterior divisions. Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. This is a list of the subjects in Gray's Anatomy: IX Neurology Elsevier, the world's largest Publisher of Medical and Scientific literature, forms part of the Reed Elsevier group The term spinal nerve generally refers to the mixed spinal Nerve, which is formed from the dorsal and ventral roots that come out of the Spinal cord.
They are directed backward, and, with the exceptions of those of the first cervical, the fourth and fifth sacral, and the coccygeal, divide into medial and lateral branches for the supply of the muscles and skin of the posterior part of the trunk. In Anatomy, ' cervical' is an Adjective that has two meanings of or pertaining to any Neck. The coccyx (pronounced kok -siks (Latin os coccygis) commonly referred to as the tailbone, is the final segment of the human vertebral column This article is about medial in mathematics For other uses see Medial (disambiguation. Muscle (from Latin musculus, diminutive of mus "mouse" is contractile tissue of the body and is derived from the The skin is the outer covering of living tissue of an animal (or plant
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Additional images
 The formation of the spinal nerve from the dorsal and ventral roots. In Anatomy and Neurology, the dorsal root (or posterior root) is the afferent sensory root of a Spinal nerve. |
External links
- posterior+ramus+of+spinal+nerve at eMedicine Dictionary
- Norman/Georgetown terminologyanatplanes (typicalspinalnerve)
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