NOUN
- one of two roots of a spinal nerve that passes dorsally from the spinal cord and that consists of sensory fibers
How To Use posterior horn In A Sentence
- The posterior horns are present and normal and contain normal choroid plexus.
- The direction and magnitude of deviations of the guidewire from the anatomic center of the posterior horn were determined after disarticulating the knees.
- The axons passing from the cerebral cortex terminate at different levels in the cord by breaking up into dendrites which arborise around the cells on the grey matter of the posterior horns -- this system of cells, axons, and dendritic processes forming an _upper neurone_. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
- Torn posterior horn of medial meniscus of right knee.
- The posterior horn in this species is only a sort of knob; whereas in the "keitloa," or two-horned black rhinoceros, both horns are developed to a nearly equal length. The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family
