dorsal horn

English Thesaurus

1. one of the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes dorsally to the spinal cord and that consists of sensory fibers (noun.body)

hypernym	:	afferent, afferent nerve, sensory nerve,
definition	:	a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system (noun.body)

part meronym	:	nervus spinalis, spinal nerve,
definition	:	any of the 31 pairs of nerves emerging from each side of the spinal cord (each attached to the cord by two roots: ventral and dorsal) (noun.body)