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The sensory root of a spinal nerve, having a dorsal root ganglion containing the nerve cell bodies of the fibres conveyed by the root in its distal end.
Synonyms: radix posterior, radix sensoria, posterior root, radix dorsalis.
(05 Mar 2000)
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