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Chapter 14 - Spinal Cord and Spinal Nerves Flashcards

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Size and location of the spinal cord

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  • Slender nerve column
  • About 45 cm long
  • Starts at foramen magnum and ends between L1 and L2 (does not go into the sacrum)
  • 31 pair spinal nerves
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What system is the spinal cord part of?

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cns

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Four major structures of the spinal cord

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  • Bilateral symmetry
  • Gray and white matter
  • Central canal
  • 2 grooves
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Hole down the center of cord; continuous with brain ventricles; both contain CSF

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Central canal

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2 grooves in the spinal cord

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  • Anterior median fissure

- Posterior median sulcus

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Swollen regions of the spinal cord

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Enlargements

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Two enlargements in the spinal cord

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  1. Cervical enlargement

2. Lumbar enlargement

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Inferior-most tip of spinal cord; cone shaped

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Conus medullaris

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Means horse’s tail; bundle of nerves inferior to spinal cord

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Cauda equina

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Inferior-most spinal nerve

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Filum terminale

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Gray matter has projections called ____

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Horns

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What does gray matter consist of?

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Cell bodies, dendrites, and synapses

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Cell bodies are organized into nuclei in gray matter into what?

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  • Sensory

- motor

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Three interior horns in gray matter

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Posterior horn
Anterior gray horn
Lateral gray horn

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Two gray commissures

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Anterior commissure and posterior commissure

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What separates the commissures in gray matter?

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The central canal

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The tracts and columns in white matter

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  • Posterior white column
  • Anterior white column
  • Lateral white column
  • Ascending tract = sensory
  • Descending tract = motor
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Three facts about meninges

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  • Membranes covering CNS
  • Are similar in both brain and spinal cord
  • Are split into layers called “mater”
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Means mother

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Mater

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Three things superficial to Meninges

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  1. Vertebrae consists of vertebral arches
  2. Epidural space
  3. Meninges connect to CT covering of spinal nerves
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  • Space between meninges and vertebra

- Contains BV and adipose

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Epidural Space

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  • Tough mother

- Durable

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Dura Mater

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Location of the dura mater

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  • Deep to epidural space

- Superficial to subdural space

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What is the dura mater stabilized by?

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Coccygeal ligament

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  • Spidery mother

- CT looks like a spider web

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Arachnoid Mater

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Location of the arachnoid mater

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  • Superficial to subarachnoid space

- Contains CSF

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  • Delicate mother

- Light layer adhering to chord

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Pia Mater

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What does the pia mater form?

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Forms part of filum terminale

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Spinal meninges (superfisical to deep)

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  • Vertebra
  • Epidural space
  • Dura mater
  • Subdural space
  • Arachnoid layer
  • Subarachnoid space (with CSF)
  • Pia mater
  • Neural tissue
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Components to the 31 pair of spinal nerves

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  • 8 cervical
  • 12 thoracic
  • 5 lumbar
  • 5 sacral
  • 1 coccygeal
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  • Usually sensory

- Dorsal root ganglion that is composed of soma

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Dorsal (posterior) root

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  • Nerve component
  • No ganglion
  • Usually motor
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Ventral (anterior) root

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Roots merge to form ___

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Because roots merge to form nerves, spinal nerves are usually what?

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Mixes (both sensory and motor)

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All roots go through _____

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Intervertebral foramina

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Three connective tissue coverings

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  1. Epineurium
  2. Perineurium
  3. Endoneurium
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Surrounds the entire nerve

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Epineurium

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Surrounds bundles of 10-100 (known as fascicles)

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Perineurium

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Surrounds each individual axon of each neuron

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Endoneurium

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Offshoots of a nerve once it exits the vertebra

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Three types of rami

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Dorsal ramus
Ventral ramus
Ramus communicantse

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A spitting in the ramus separating sensory and motor fibers

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Rami communicantes

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Two different kinds of communicantes

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  1. White ramus communicantes

2. Gray ramus communicantes

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Sensory innervation by specific spinal nerves

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Dermatomes

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What will result in loss of sensation in dermatome?

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Spinal cord damage

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Detection method is apart of what?

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Dermatomes

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  • Braid off ventral rami
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Nerve plexuses

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The regions where nerve plexuses are found

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  • Cervical
  • Lumbar
  • Sacral
  • Most thoracic nerve are all isolated
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Cervical plexus location and innervations

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  • C1-C4 and part of C5
  • Innervate certain muscles of neck and torso
  • Phrenic nerve
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Where is the phrenic nerve?

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C3, 4 and 5

- Go to diaphragm

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Where is the brachial plexus?

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C4-C8 and T1

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What does the brachial plexus innervate?

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Chest, upper back, and arm

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To ant. muscles of arms and skin of forearm

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Musculocutaneous

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To muscles of forearm, hands, and skin of hands

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Ulnar nerve

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Same as ulnar

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Median nerve

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To post. muscles of arms and skin of forearms and hands

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Radial nerve

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  • Last thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal nerves

- May be split into lumbar and sacral plexuses

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Lumbosacral Plexus

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What does the lumbosacral plexus innervate?

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The lower limb regions

58
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To adductors of leg

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Obturator nerve

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Motor impulses to leg and thigh and receive sensory from skin of legs and thigh

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Femoral nerve

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To muscles and skin in thighs, legs, and feet

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Sciatic nerve

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Explain reflexes

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  • Rapid automatic involuntary motor response to stimuli
  • Help preserve homeostasis
  • Occur at spinal cord or brain stem
  • Do NOT require cerebral processing
  • Cna be modified by cerebral control
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How are reflexes classified?

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  • By development
  • Site of processing
  • Nature of motor response
  • Complexity of neural circuit
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Classifying reflexes by development with their definitions

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Genetically = built in 
Learned = acquired through repetition and/or experience
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Classification of reflexes by site of processing

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Spinal reflex = impulse only goes to the spinal cord

Cranial reflex = makes it to the brain

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Classification of reflexes by the nature of motor response

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Somatic = influences the skeletal muscle system

Visceral (autonomic) = influences the involuntary systems such as smooth muscle and glands

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Classifying reflexes using the complexity of neural circuit

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One synapse involved = monosynaptic

More than one synapse = polysynaptic

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Steps of a Reflex Arc

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  1. The receptor is stimulated by a detectible environmental stimulus
  2. The receptor stimulates a SENSORY NEURON that sends a signal to the CNS for processing
  3. The information is processed by being TRANSMITTED to the appropriate neurons (interneuron or motor neuron)
  4. A MOTOR NEURON is stimulated, sending a signal to an EFFECTOR.
  5. This results in behavior
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A reflex stimulated by the stretching of a muscle

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Stretch reflex

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Receptors that detect stretching

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Muscle spindle fibers

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What is the effector in stretch reflex?

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Contraction of the muscle

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A patellar reflex is what kind of reflex?

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Stretch reflex

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What are the two functions of the patellar reflex?

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  1. Prevent muscles from being overstretched

2. Prevent one from falling forward

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