Match these terms with their descriptions.

1. swellings containing sensory cell bodies
2. tracts of axons that transfer information to and from the brain
3. motor fibers leave the spinal cord's gray matter via this
4. cluster of gray matter in the brain
5. sensory fibers enter this part of the "H"

A. dorsal horns
B. columns
C. ventral root
D. dorsal root ganglia
E. nuclei


1. D. dorsal root ganglia
2. B. columns
3. C. ventral root
4. E. nuclei
5. A. dorsal horns

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