Spinal cord Right Ans - relay station for spinal reflexes
connection btw brain and peripheral ns
Where is grey matter Right Ans - surrounds central canal
What Is grey matter made of Right Ans - cell bodies, dendrites, axon
terminals, interneurons
What is white matter made of Right Ans - myelinated axons passing to and
from brain or different parts of the spinal cord
Lateral horn Right Ans - contains neurons that innervate visceral and
pelvic organs as part of the autonomic ns
lateral = autonomic
Where can you find the lateral horn Right Ans - T1-L3 in dogs
Ventral horn Right Ans - alpha and gamma motor neurons
how is white matter organized Right Ans - in tracts: bundles of axons in
CNS
white matter ascending tracts to brain Right Ans - carry proprioceptive
information from skin and joints in dorsal columns
white matter ventral and venterolateral columns Right Ans - ascending
information about pain and temp
descending white matter tracts Right Ans - carry motor commands in
lateral and ventral columns
dorsal ramus Right Ans - muscles, joints, skin of back
part of mixed spinal nerves
ventral ramus Right Ans - lateral and ventral trunk, limbs
part of mixed spinal nerves
, rami communicantes Right Ans - in spinal nerves T1-L3, carry motor
output of sympathetic division of ANS
cervical segment of spinal cord Right Ans - c1-c5
cervicothoracic region of spinal cord Right Ans - c6-t2, cervical
enlargement thoracic limb
thoracolumbar region Right Ans - t3-l3
lumbosacral region Right Ans - l4-s3 lumbosacral enlargement pelvic limb
cauda equina Right Ans - caudally streaming spinal roots
filum terminale Right Ans - extension of pia mater that attaches to the
coccygeal segments
denticulate ligament Right Ans - spinal cord attaches to dura via
denticulate ligament
subarachnoid space of vertebral column contains what Right Ans - CSF
what level of the meninges surrounds the spinal cord and roots Right Ans -
pia
where can you collect CSF Right Ans - cerebellomedullary or lumbar
cistern
how does CSF enter the central canal Right Ans - flows from the fourth
ventricle, through obex
path of CSF Right Ans - fourth ventricle to cerebellomedullary cistern
through subarachnoid space of spinal cord
intervertebral disc disorder Right Ans - bulging or tears in anulus leading
to pushing or leaking of inner substance of nucleus pulposus
can impinge nerves
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