Transverse Section Through Spinal Cord
The gray matter is made up of neuroglia cells and neuron cell bodies.
Transverse section through spinal cord. When the mouse cursor passes over this image some of the major structures. Spinal nerve transverse section through spinal cord. Which of the three spinal meninges is the most superficial meninx mater epi mater dura mater pia mater arachnoid mater.
The spinal cord is located in an opening that is surrounded by the bodies pedicles and laminae of the vertebrae. The spinal cord in cross section has a central region of darker gray matter and the rest is lighter white matter. Transverse myelitis is an inflammation of both sides of one section of the spinal cord.
A web based interactive anatomical atlas consisting of twenty seven plates of transverse sections of the spinal cord and brainstem. The ventral median fissure is an invagination of the spinal cord located on the ventral anterior surface. Spinal nerve transverse section through spinal cord.
It helps in separating the left and right halves of the spinal cord. Transverse myelitis interrupts the messages that the spinal cord nerves send throughout the body. Ventrally the halves are separated by a ventral median fissure into which pia mater invaginates.
This neurological disorder often damages the insulating material covering nerve cell fibers myelin. The white matter is made up of neuron axons mostly but not all myelinated. Level of section plate five through twenty seven include an image of the brainstem indicating the level the section was taken from.
A drawing of a transverse section through the t10 spinal segment is shown on the right. A h cross sections of a spinal cord at eight different levels all shown at about the same magnification a the fourth sacral segment s4 several features common to all spinal levels can be seen. Figure 1 is a transverse section through the rostral medulla the rubrospinal tract fibers crossed have been shifted posteriorly by the inferior olivary complex and are medial to the ascending spinothalamic tract and anterior spinocerebellar tract a useful landmark for locating the rubrospinal tract in the.