spinal nerve
noun
plural spinal nerves
: any of the paired nerves which leave the spinal cord of a craniate vertebrate, supply muscles of the trunk and limbs, and connect with the nerves of the sympathetic nervous system, which arise by a short motor ventral root and a short sensory dorsal root, and of which there are 31 pairs in humans
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Compression of the spinal nerves leads to pain, tingling, and weakness that radiates down the affected shoulder and arm.
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Laura Dorwart, Verywell Health, 13 Aug. 2024
An epidural is a small catheter that injects a pain-relieving medication — either an anesthetic or steroid — into the space around your spinal nerves, known as the epidural space.
—Alyssa Goldberg, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2024
An experimental medical device called Arc-Ex, which stimulates a patient’s spinal nerves with electric pulses, appeared to incrementally improve arm and hand function in a small trial of patients with tetraplegia—a condition in which one is partially or totally paralyzed from the neck down.
—Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 May 2024
These medications are delivered through a small tube (catheter) placed in your back that opens into the space around your spinal nerves, or the epidural space.
—Samantha Lauriello, Health, 26 May 2024
And while stimulating spinal nerves to generate sensation in a missing limb isn’t a new idea, the researchers wanted to test whether that could also reduce pain.
—Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 15 Dec. 2023
That’s because the tongue is controlled by a cranial nerve, but the hands are controlled by spinal nerves.
—R. Douglas Fields, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2023
Injuries that cause a herniated disk may lead to spinal nerve root compression.
—Sarah Fielding, Health, 3 July 2023
Muscles, bones, discs, spinal nerves, internal organs, or underlying illness can directly or indirectly cause lower back pain.
—Stuart Hershman, Verywell Health, 26 June 2023
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Laura Dorwart, Verywell Health, 13 Aug. 2024
An epidural is a small catheter that injects a pain-relieving medication — either an anesthetic or steroid — into the space around your spinal nerves, known as the epidural space.
—Alyssa Goldberg, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2024
An experimental medical device called Arc-Ex, which stimulates a patient’s spinal nerves with electric pulses, appeared to incrementally improve arm and hand function in a small trial of patients with tetraplegia—a condition in which one is partially or totally paralyzed from the neck down.
—Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 May 2024
These medications are delivered through a small tube (catheter) placed in your back that opens into the space around your spinal nerves, or the epidural space.
—Samantha Lauriello, Health, 26 May 2024
And while stimulating spinal nerves to generate sensation in a missing limb isn’t a new idea, the researchers wanted to test whether that could also reduce pain.
—Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 15 Dec. 2023
That’s because the tongue is controlled by a cranial nerve, but the hands are controlled by spinal nerves.
—R. Douglas Fields, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2023
Injuries that cause a herniated disk may lead to spinal nerve root compression.
—Sarah Fielding, Health, 3 July 2023
Muscles, bones, discs, spinal nerves, internal organs, or underlying illness can directly or indirectly cause lower back pain.
—Stuart Hershman, Verywell Health, 26 June 2023
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“Spinal nerve.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spinal%20nerve. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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