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Ventral horn
Contains motor neurons for skeletal muscles
Doral Horn
Contains sensory neurons receiving signals from the body
Lateral Horn
Contain cell bodies of preganglionic neurons of the ANS
Gray Commissure
Connects the two sides of the spinal cords gray matter
Central cCanal
Contains CSF
White Matter
surrounds the gray matter, made of ascending and descending nerve tracts
Cauda equina
Roots of spinal nerves hanging from the lower end
Conus Medullaris
the tapered end of the spinal cord (L1-L2)
Filum Terminale
Extension of pia mater anchoring the spinal cord to the coccyx
Ascending tracts:
Spinocerebellar
Posterior Funiculus
Lateral spinothalamic
Anterior Spinothalamic
Descending Tracts
Corticospinal
Tectospinal
Rubrospinal
Reticulospinal
Vestibulospinal
Spinocerebellar is for?
Propioception to the cerebellum
Posterior funiculcus
Light touch , pressure, and proprioception
Lateral spinothalamic
Pain and temperature
Anterior spinothalamic
Crude touch and pressure