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Internal Organization of the Spinal Cord Flashcards

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What do vertical grooves mark?

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External Spinal Cord

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Is the following anterior or posterior spinal cord?

deep medial fissure & two anterolateral sulci where nerve rootlets emerge from the spinal cord

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Anterior spinal cord

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Is the following anterior or posterior spinal cord?

shallow median sulcus and two posterolateral sulci where nerve rootlets enter the spinal cord

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Posterior spinal cord

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Why do cervical & lumbar regions have more gray matter?

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  • regions innervate the limbs motor neurons for all limb muscles are located at these levels
  • sensory neurons for all limb muscles are located at these levels
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Why is there more white matter as you move from caudal to rostral segments?

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  • ascending/descending axons are being added
  • cervical spinal cord has most white matter b/c it is carrying information to and from all levels of spinal cord
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C8 spinal cord segment is at what vertebral level?

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C6-7 vertebral bodies at level of C6 spinous process

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T1 spinal cord segment is at what vertebral level?

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C7-T1 vertebral bodies at level of C7 spinous process

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T10-11 spinal cord segments are at what vertebral level?

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T9 vertebral body at level of T8 spinous process

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L2-L5 spinal cord segments are at what vertebral level?

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T12 vertebral body at level of T10 spinous process

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S1-5 spinal cord segments are at what vertebral level?

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L1 vertebral body at level of T12 and L1 spinous processes

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What is the following structure?

Located at the end of the spinal cord at L1-2 intervertebral space

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Conus medullaris

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What is the following structure?

long roots required for axons from termination of spinal cord to exit lumbosacral vertebral column

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Cauda equina

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What is the following structre?

  • located inferior to end of spinalcord
  • bundle of connective tissue & glia that connects the end of the spinal cord to coccyx
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Filum terminale

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What is the following structure?

axons of LMN cells that leave the anterolateral cord in small groups

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Rootlets

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Ventral rootlets from a single segment merge to form what?

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Ventral root

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Dorsal root sensory axons enter where in the spinal cord?

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Posterolateral spinal cord via rootlets

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Dorsal root ganglion contains what

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Cell bodies of sensory neurons

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Sensory axons with large-diameter fibers transmitting propriocetive and touch info. are located medially or laterally?

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Medially

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Sensory axons with small-diameter fibers transmitting nociception and temp. information are located medially or laterally?

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Laterally

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How is spinal cord organized?

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Segmentally

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What part of the spinal cord is this?

Spinal nerve roots exit the vertebral column through intervertebral foramen above correspoinding vertebra

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Cervial region

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C8 spinal nerve roots emerges from where?

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Between C7 and T1 vertebra

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After transitting through intervertebral foramen, the spinal nerve splits into 2 marking what?

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End of spinal region and beginning of peripheral nervous system

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What does the dorsal rami innervate?

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Paravertebral muscles, posterior parts of vertebrae and overlying cutaneous areas

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What does the ventral rami innervate?

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Skeletal, muscularm and cutaneous areas of limbs & anterior & lateral trunk

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What type of neruon is this?

neurons that begin and end within the spinal cord

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Propriospinal nerve

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What is the following cell called?

Cells with long axons connecting the spinal cord with the brain

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Tract cells

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What do the dorsal & lateral columns of white matter contain?

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Contains axons of tract cells, transmitting sensory information to the brain

29
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What do the lateral and anterior columns of white matter contain?

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Contains axons of UMN conveying information descending from the brain to interneurons and LMN

30
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Are the folloiwng tracts descending or anterior & lateral or anterior

  • lateral corticospinal tract
  • lateral reticulospinal tract
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  • Descending tract
  • Lateral column
31
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Are the folloiwng tracts descending or anterior & lateral or anterior

  • medial (anterior) corticospinal tract
  • medial reticulospinal tract
  • medial & lateral vestibulospinal tract
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  • Descending tract
  • Anterior column
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Is the folloiwng tract descending or anterior; lateral, anterior, dorsal

  • dorsal column medial lemniscus sytem (fasciculus gracilis, fasiciulus cuneatus
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  • ascending tract
  • dorsal column
33
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Is the folloiwng tract descending or anterior; lateral, anterior, dorsal

  • spinocerebellar tracts
  • lateral spinothalamic tracts
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  • ascending tracts
  • lateral column
34
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Is the folloiwng tract descending or anterior; lateral, anterior, dorsal

  • medial (anterior) spinothalamic tract
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  • ascending tract
  • anterior column
35
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What does the dorsal horn process?

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sensory informatoin

36
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What does the lateral horn process?

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Autonomic information

37
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What does the ventral horn process?

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motor information

38
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What do spinal interneurons include?

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includes cells that remain entirely within gray matter and cells whose axons travel in white matter

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Where is nuceus dorsalis (Clarke’s column) located?

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Medial gray matter anterior to dorsal horn from levels T1-L3

40
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What type of information is recieved by nucleus dorsalis

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recives proprioceptive information and its axons relay unconscious propriocpetive information to the cerebellum

41
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Where is the lateral horn present?

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Only at T1-L2 spinal segments

42
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What does the lateral horn contain?

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cell bodes of preganglionic sympathetic neurons

43
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Preganglionic autonomic neurons are what type of neuron?

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Efferent neuron

44
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Where do sympathetic and parasympathetic preganglionic neurons exit the cord?

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Via ventral root

45
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Which meninges layer is this?

  • tough outer layer
  • forms dural sac that surrounds entire spinal cord
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Dura mater

46
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What is this space called?

space between L1-L2 & S2

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Lumbar cistern

47
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True epidural space seperates what?

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Dura from periosteum of the vertebrae

48
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What is epidural space filled with?

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Fat and the vertebral venous plexus

49
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What is the arachnoid seperated from the pia by?

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CSF in suarachnoid space (intrathecal)

50
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What is the space between arachnoid and dura?

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Supdural space

51
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What is the supdural space filled with?

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  • filled with CSF
  • spinal blood vessels are suspended in arachnoid trabeculae in this space
52
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The pia gives off what ligament that pierces the arachnoid and attaches to the dura?

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Denticulate ligament

53
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What does the dentigulate ligament seperate?

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Anterior and posterior rootlets

54
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Where does the blood supply of the spinal cord come from?

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Vertebral-basilar system and segmental arteries of the aorta

55
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Paried posterior spinal arteries branch off what?

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Posterior inferior cerebellar arteries or the vertebral artery

56
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What do anterior and posterior arteries give off?

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Coronal branches that anastomse with each other

57
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What do the anterior spinal arteries supply?

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Anterior two-thirds of the spinal cord

58
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What do the posterior spinal arteries supply?

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posterior third of spinal cord

59
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Where does the great radicular artery arise from?

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from the aorta at T12

60
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What spinal cord tract is this?

  • Orign: peripheral receptors; first-order neuron synapses in medulla
  • Function: conveys information about light touch and concious proprioception
A

DCML

61
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What spinal cord tract is this?

  • Orign: dorsal horn of spinal cord
  • Function: conveys discriminative information about nocieption & temperature
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Spinothalamic

62
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What spinal cord tract is this?

  • Origin: high-accuracy paths origniate in peripheral receptors; first-order neurons synapse in nucleus dorsalis or medulla
  • Function: conveys unconscious proprioceptive information
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Posterior spinocerebellar tract

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What spinal cord tract is this?

  • Origin: internal feedback tracts originate in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord
  • Function: conveys info about activity in UMN pathways & spinal interneurons
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Anterior spinocerebellar

64
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What spinal cord tract is this?

  • Origin: Supplementary motor, premotor, and primary motor cerebral cortex
  • Function: contralateral selective motor control, particulary hand movements
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Lateral corticospinal

65
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What spinal cord tract is this?

Orign: supplementary motor, premotor, & primary motor cerebral cortex
Function: control of neck, shldr, & trunk muscles

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Medial corticospinal

66
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What spinal cord tract is this?

  • Origin: reticular formation in medulla & pons
  • Function: Facilitates postural muscles and gross limb movements
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Reticulospinal

67
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What spinal cord tract is this?

Orign: vestibular nuceli in medulla and pons
medial tract function: adjusts activity in neck and upper back muscles
lateral tract function: ipsilaterally faciliates LMN to extensors; inhibts LMN to flexors

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Vestibulospinal

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