GENERAL HISTOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Most axons in the ventral roots arise from motor neurons in the ventral horn of the spinal cord and innervate skeletal muscle. Others arise from the lateral horn and synapse on autonomic ganglia that innervate visceral organs.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ventral root fibers are the axons of motor and visceral efferent fibers and emerge from poorly defined ventral lateral sulcus as ventral rootlets. The ventral rootlets from discrete spinal cord section unite and form the ventral root, which contain motor nerve axons from motor and visceral motor neurons.

Detailed explanation-3: -This basic system is present throughout spinal cord anatomy – dorsal roots carry afferent fibers, and ventral roots carry efferent fibers. Similarly, the ventral horn contains efferent cell bodies, and the dorsal root ganglion contains afferent cell bodies.

Detailed explanation-4: -The anterior/ventral root contains efferent nerve fibres, which carry stimuli away from the CNS towards their target structures.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Ventral Root of the spinal nerve contains outgoing, efferent (meaning to “bear away from") fibers that carry information destined to control motor or glandular function. The cell bodies of these motor neurons are located in the ventral horns of the spinal cord’s central grey region.