sensory nerve vs dorsal root

sensory nerve and dorsal root both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sensory nerve	Yes	No	No	No
dorsal root	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, dorsal root is a hyponym of sensory nerve; that is, dorsal root is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than sensory nerve:

sensory nerve: a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system
dorsal root: one of two roots of a spinal nerve that passes dorsally from the spinal cord and that consists of sensory fibers

Other hyponyms of sensory nerve include dorsal horn, posterior horn, posterior root, fillet, lemniscus.

sensory nerve (noun)	dorsal root (noun)
a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system	one of two roots of a spinal nerve that passes dorsally from the spinal cord and that consists of sensory fibers

sensory nerve vs dorsal root

sensory nerve and dorsal root both are nouns.

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