anterior horn

English Thesaurus

1. one of two the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes ventrally from the spinal cord and that consists of motor fibers (noun.body)

hypernym	:	efferent, efferent nerve, motor nerve,
definition	:	a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands (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)