DRY Lab2 Flashcards
What disease has numbness in the perianal region, the numbness is symmetrical and bilateral, urinary and fecal incontinence?
Conus Medullaris Syndrome
What disease has numbness to the saddle area, is assymetrical, urinary retention?
Cauda Equina Syndrome
What artery supplies the anterior 2/3 of the spinal cord? What artery supplies the rest of the spinal cord?
anterior spinal cord
posterior spinal cord
A lumbar puncture looks for __________ and__________?
What patients should not have lumbar puncture?
infection and blood
No patients with raised ICP
Adults the lumbar puncture should be at what level?
Children the lumbar puncture should be at what level?
L3-L4
L4-L5
What tract is crude touch/light touch?
Anterior Spinothalmic
What tract is is pain and temperature?
Lateral Spinothalmic
What tract conveys information, cerebellum, cutaneous, and proprioceptive organs?
Spino-olivary Fibers
Anterior Spinocerebellar tract
Cerebellum, coordination of limb movements, maintenace of posture, upper/lower limbs
Posterior Spinocerebellar tract
Cerebellum, muscle joint, information, muscle spindles, tendon organs, and joint receptors
Gray matter, anterior column Medial portion innervates what?
skeletal muscle of the neck and trunk, including intercostal and abdominal
almost all segements
Gray matter, anterior column central portion innervates what?
smallest, cervical and lumbosacral, innervates the diaphragm, called phrenic nucleus, accessory muscles -> SCM and trapezius
some cervical and lumbosacral segments
Gray matter, anterior column lateral portion innervates what?
skeletal muscles of the limbs
cervical and lumbosacral regions only
Substantia gelatinosa is situated at the _________ of the posterior gray column
Runs through how much of the spinal cord?
Is responsible for?
apex
runs through the whole spinal cord
pain, temperature, and touch, does take some descending fibers
Nucleus proprius sits _____________ to the substantia gelatinosa
What is it a part of?
anterior
receives fibers from the posterior white column that are associated with the senses of position, movement, proprioception, two point discrimination, and vibration
