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    dorsal ramus of spinal nerve, posterior ramus of spinal nerve, or posterior primary division is the posterior division of a spinal nerve. The dorsal rami...
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    the dorsal rami. Shortly after a spinal nerve exits the intervertebral foramen, it branches into the dorsal ramus, the ventral ramus, and the ramus communicans...
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    A spinal nerve is a mixed nerve, which carries motor, sensory, and autonomic signals between the spinal cord and the body. In the human body there are...
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    The dorsal root of spinal nerve (or posterior root of spinal nerve or sensory root) is one of two "roots" which emerge from the spinal cord. It emerges...
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    unexplained activation of the primary division of a posterior ramus of a spinal nerve (dorsal ramus of spinal nerve). This nerve irritation causes referred...
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  • Ramus of the mandible or Superior pubic ramus A nerve ramus such as the Dorsal ramus of spinal nerve A taxonomic rank ("branch" in English) intermediate...
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  • Thumbnail for Dorsal scapular nerve
    The dorsal scapular nerve is a branch of the brachial plexus, usually derived from the ventral ramus of cervical nerve C5. It provides motor innervation...
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    The suboccipital nerve (first cervical dorsal ramus) is the dorsal primary ramus of the first cervical nerve (C1). It exits the spinal cord between the...
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    fibers that arise from the merging of the anterior rami of spinal nerves and blood vessels. There are five spinal nerve plexuses, except in the thoracic...
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    Nikolai Bogduk (category Members of the Order of Australia)
    Lumbar disc disease Whiplash (medicine) Radiofrequency ablation Dorsal ramus of spinal nerve "Emeritus Professor Nikolai Bogduk Staff Profile". www.newcastle...
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  • Thumbnail for Greater occipital nerve
    occipital nerve is a nerve of the head. It is a spinal nerve, specifically the medial branch of the dorsal primary ramus of cervical spinal nerve 2. It arises...
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    ramus communicans (pl.: rami communicantes) from Latin ramus (branch) and communicans (communicating) is the preganglionic sympathetic outflow nerve tract...
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    ulnar nerve. The ulnar branch (ramus ulnaris; posterior branch) passes obliquely downward on the medial side of the basilic vein, in front of the medial...
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  • Thumbnail for List of nerves of the human body
    nerve Trigeminal nerve Trochlear nerve Tympanic nerve Ulnar nerve Upper subscapular nerve Uterovaginal plexus Vagus nerve Ventral ramus Vesical nervous...
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    Each of these roots is the end of a spinal nerve connecting the spinal cord to the body. The vertebral column is divided into four groups of vertebrae:...
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    laryngeal nerve Recurrent laryngeal nerve Accessory nerve Hypoglossal nerve Spinal nerves Cervical nerves Suboccipital nerve Greater occipital nerve Third...
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  • Thumbnail for Deep branch of radial nerve
    articulations of the carpal and metacarpal joints. Since the nerve passes dorsally around the head of the radius, it is susceptible to traction or compression...
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    the ventral rami of the lumbar and sacral spinal nerves with additional contributions from the subcostal nerve (T12) and coccygeal nerve (Co1). Based on...
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    addition to being attached to the fasciƦ and the pubic ramus, the root is bound to the front of the pubic symphysis by the fundiform and suspensory ligaments...
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    Rhomboid major muscle (category Muscles of the upper limb)
    ventral primary ramus via the dorsal scapular nerve (C5). Both rhomboid muscles also derive their arterial blood supply from the dorsal scapular artery...
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    Facet joint (category Bones of the vertebral column)
    L5 and S1 facet joint is innervated by the L4 medial branch nerve and the L5 dorsal ramus. In this case, there is no L5 medial branch to innervate the...
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  • bifida spinal accessory nucleus spinal cord spinal lemniscus spinal nerve spine spine of the scapula spinocerebellar tract spinocerebellum spinocervical...
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  • Thumbnail for General visceral afferent fiber
    nerve from the ganglion into the sympathetic trunk, move into a ventral ramus via a white ramus communicans, and finally move into the mixed spinal nerve...
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    called the lumbar medial branches of the dorsal ramus of the spinal nerves. By generating heat around the nerve, the nerve is ablated, thus destroying its...
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  • Thumbnail for Transverse cervical artery
    branch. It crosses in front of the phrenic nerve and the scalene muscles, and in front of or between the divisions of the brachial plexus, and is covered by...
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    the greater horns of the hyoid bone. It then curves downward and forward, forming a loop which is crossed by the hypoglossal nerve. It then passes beneath...
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    Rectus capitis posterior major muscle (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918))
    muscle is innervated by the suboccipital nerve (the posterior ramus of cervical spinal nerve C1). The muscle acts to extend the head and rorate the head...
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    Rectus capitis posterior minor muscle (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918))
    innervated by the suboccipital nerve (the posterior ramus of first cervical spinal nerve). The muscle acts as a weak extensor of the head. The rectus capitis...
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  • Thumbnail for Posterior branches of cervical nerves
    branches of cervical nerves branch from the dorsal rami of the cervical nerves. The posterior division of the first cervical or suboccipital nerve is larger...
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    Costotransverse joint (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918))
    medial to the superior costotransverse ligament, with the dorsal ramus of a thoracic spinal nerve and associated vessels intervening between the two. Its...
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