Transverse Section Of Cervical Spinal Cord
2 1 is the same at every level a butterfly shaped core of gray matter surrounded by white matter an often indistinct central canal in the middle of the butterfly is the remnant of the lumen of the embryonic.
Transverse section of cervical spinal cord. Transverse myelitis is a neurological condition that happens when both sides of the same section of the spinal cord become inflamed. The ventral median fissure is an invagination of the spinal cord located on the ventral anterior surface. Transverse myelitis is an inflammation of both sides of one section of the spinal cord.
This neurological disorder often damages the insulating material covering nerve cell fibers myelin. Loss of myelin often leads to spinal cord scarring that blocks nerve impulses and results in physical problems. This inflammation can damage myelin the fatty substance that covers your nerves.
Transverse sections of the spinal cord 23 the spinal cord is perhaps the most simply arranged part of the cns. An often indistinct central. Its basic structure indicated in a schematic drawing of the eighth cervical segment fig.
It helps in separating the left and right halves of the spinal cord. A transverse section of the spinal cord showing the major anatomical landmarks used to identify the ventral and dorsal surfaces. The spinal cord brainstem interactive atlas a web based interactive anatomical atlas consisting of twenty seven plates of transverse sections of the spinal cord and brainstem.