Meaning & use
Rami
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Branches, especially of a nerve, blood vessel, or bone, in anatomy; the plural of ramus.
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The dorsal rami supply the muscles and skin of the back.
Surgeons carefully mapped the rami of the facial nerve before the procedure.
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From Latin ramus, meaning 'branch'; the term appears throughout anatomical nomenclature, including the mandible's rami.
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