Spinal Cord Transverse Section In The Vertebral Column Showing Spinal Meninges And Associated Spaces

Spinal cord is the lower cylindrical part of central nervous system that is located in the vertebral canal.

Spinal cord transverse section in the vertebral column showing spinal meninges and associated spaces. The nerves of your spinal cord. 3 name the meninges covering the spinal cord their extent and the spaces associated with them. Thus each spinal nerve branches on both ends into anterior and posterior roots approaching the spinal cord and anterior and posterior rami leading away from the vertebral column.

Figure 41 2 a myelomere of the spinal cord and one of its two associated spinal nerves. After leaving the vertebral column a spinal nerve will divide into branches and many of the spinal nerves ail form a network called a. Figure 41 3 horizontal section of the spinal cord showing the meninges.

The vertebral column grows faster than the spinal. P posterior median sulcus. However the cranial and spinal meninges are continuous with each.

Gray matter of the spinal cord forms shaped figure in transverse section. The meninges are the three membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord and separate them from the walls of their bony cases skull and vertebral column based on their location meninges are referred to as the cranial meninges which envelop the brain and spinal meninges which envelop the spinal cord. The vertebral canal is home to the spinal cord which extends from the brainstem down into the lumbar portion of the vertebral column.

B shows the arterial supply to the cord. A anterior median fissure. Vertebral column meninges dura mater arachnoid mater and pia mater.

It begins as an extension of the medulla oblongata and runs inferiorly to around the 1st or 2nd lumbar vertebra where it terminates as the conus medullaris. Meninges of the brain.