Cervical Spinal Nerve Root

Preferred Label : Cervical Spinal Nerve Root;

NCIt synonyms : Cervical Spinal Nerve Roots;

NCIt definition : The initial segment of a nerve leaving the cervical spine. There are eight pairs of cervical roots, each consisting of two parts: the ventral (efferent motor) and the dorsal (afferent sensory) root which unite to form a single spinal nerve. All cervical nerves exit superiorly to their corresponding vertebrae with the exception of C8, which exits inferiorly to the C7 vertebra.;

Details

Origin ID

C12893;

UMLS CUI

C0581631;

Anatomic structure is physical part of
- Cervical Spinal Cord [NCIt concept]
- Spinal Nerve [NCIt concept]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Entire cervical spinal nerve root (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Root of cervical nerve [FMA entity]
- root of cervical nerve [UBERON concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Body Part, Organ, or Organ Component [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Cervical spinal nerve root structure (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Root of cervical nerve [FMA entity]
- cervical spinal cord nerve root, nos [SNOMED Notion]
- root of cervical nerve [Radlex concept]
- root of cervical nerve [UBERON concept]

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