thoracic nerve

Other forms: thoracic nerves

Definitions of thoracic nerve
  1. noun
    any of twelve pairs of spinal nerves emerging from the thoracic region of the spinal cord
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    type of:
    nervus spinalis, spinal nerve
    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)
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