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Anatomy- Limbs & back- The Spinal Cord

  1. What are the 2 nervous system?
    • Central Nervous System
    • Peripheral Nervous System
  2. What is part of the Peripheral Nervous System?
    • Somatic Nervous System
    • Autonomic Nervous System
  3. What is autonomic nervous system?
    Involuntary contol of visceral organs
  4. What are the types of autonomic nervous system?
    • Parasympathetic Nervous System (rest & digest)
    • Sympathetic Nervous System (stress)
  5. What is the somatic nervous system?
    Voluntary control, sensory and motor function
  6. What is a myotome?
    Muscle innervated by one single spinal nerve
  7. What is a dermatome?
    Skin section innervated by one single spinal nerve
  8. What are the nerves part of the Brachial Plexus?
    C5-T1
  9. What are the nerves part of the Lumbosacral Plexus?
    L1-S4
  10. What dermatome is innervated by T4?
    Nipple
  11. What dermatome is innervated by T6?
    Xiphoid Process
  12. What dermatone is innervated by T10?
    Umbilicus
  13. How many Cervical nerves do we have?
    8
  14. What is the spinal nerve segment of the coccyx?
    Coccygeal
  15. What is the end of the spinal cord?
    Conus Medullaris
  16. Where does the spinal cord ends?
    L1-L2
  17. How are called the spinal nerves our of the lumbar region?
    Cauda equina
  18. What is an enlargement and what type are there?
    • Enlargement provide innervation to the limbs
    • Cervical Enlargement
    • Lumbar Enlargement
  19. What keeps the spinal cord to go up and down?
    Filum Teminale
  20. Where are the spinal nerve comming out of intervertebral foramen?
    • Cervical one above the vertebrae corresponding
    • for the other ones, below
  21. What is the white matter?
    axons
  22. What is the gray matter?
    Cell body
  23. What is called the center of the spinal cord?
    Central Canal
  24. What are the meninges of the spinal cord?
    • Dura mater
    • Arachnoid Mater
    • Pia Mater
  25. What keeps the spinal cord from moving side to side?
    Denticulate Ligaments
  26. What are the spaces between the meninges of the spinal cord?
    • Epidural Space(fat)
    • Subdural Space
    • Subarachnoid Space
  27. What is efferent information?
    Motor information
  28. What is afferent information?
    Sensory information
  29. What information comes anteriorly?
    Motor information
  30. What information comes Posteriorly?
    Sensory information
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Anatomy- Limbs & back- The Spinal Cord
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anatomy of the spinal cord
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