Lec 2 - Spinal Cord Flashcards
Each spinal cord innervates a blank
Dermatome
Spinal cords have ascending/descending pathways
Both
Posterior horns of spinal cord has blank
Sensory interneurons
Anterior horns of spinal cord has blank
Motor neurons
Intermediate gray matter of the spinal cord has blank neurons central to autonomic ganglia
Autonomic
Spinal cord is suspended in the dural tube by blank and blank
Denticulate ligaments, arachnoid trabeculae
Posterior rootlets enter the spinal cord at the blank
Posterolateral sulcus
Anterior rootlets leave the spinal cord at the blank
Anterolateral sulcus
Spinal cord starts at blank and ends at blank
Pyramidal decusation, conus medullaris
Extension of the pia past the conus medullaris that is anchored to the coccyx
Filum terminale
31 segments of the spinal cord
8 cervical, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar, 5 sacral, 1 coccygeal
Part of spinal cord that supplies upper extremities
Cervical enlargement
Part of spinal cord that supplies lower extremities
Lumbar enlargement
During this fetal month, the cord and vertebral column grow at the same rate
3
At birth, spinal cord ends at blank
L3
Know numbers of spinal cords slide important
Ok
This part of spinal cord has dorsal and ventral roots called the cauda equina
Lumbar cistern
Law that is not entirely true but states that the dorsal root has only afferents and ventral root has only efferent fibers
Bell magendie law
Gray matter is rich in blank
Cell bodies/dendrites
Gray matter can form these or these
Nuclei, ganglia
Slide how tracts are named important
Ok
More blank the farther down the spinal cord
Gray matter
Special sensory nucleus on the medial surface of the posterior horn of T1-L2
Clarke’s nucleus
Clarke’s nucleus is a spinal relay from the leg to the cerebellum and does blank
Proprioception
In the cervical and lumbar enlargements, there are additional motor neurons located blank in the blank horns
Laterally, anterior
Two cervical cord specialized columns of motor neurons
Lateral spinal accessory nucleus, medial phrenic nucleus
This nucleus extends from medulla to c5 and forms the accessory nerve
Lateral spinal accessory
This innervates the diaphragm and is C3-C5
Medial phrenic nucleus
Intermediate gray matter contains blank neurons
Efferent autonomic
There are blank laminae of the spinal cord gray matter and have different functions
Rexed’s
Marginal zone is lamina blank and has this function
1, pain/temp
Substantia gelatinosa is this lamina and has this function
2, modulate pain/temp
Picture toward the end with the fissures and sulci
Ok
Each nerve pair innervates a single blank
Dermatome
Memorize dermatomes slide
Ok