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onuf's nucleus

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Onuf's nucleus On·uf's nucleus (ŏn'əfs)
n.
A nucleus of small somatic motor neurons that are located in the ventral horn of the spinal cord at the level of the second sacral vertebra and innervate the vesicorectal sphincters.

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