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A measurement of the two-dimensional extent of a plane through the spinal cord ventral horn, one of the hornlike projections of gray matter into the white matter of the spinal cord. The anterior horn contains efferent fibers innervating skeletal muscle tissue.
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spinal cord anterior column area; spinal cord anterior horn area