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Car accident spinal cord was severed at the 12th level thoracic Spinal cord reflexes below this level are absent What is this called?
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If someone has a severed spine reflex still occurs?
Yes. Even though the spinal cord is severed, all the reflexes still work both above and below the severed spinal cord.
What function might be lost in the spinal cord is severed in an accident?
The use of the body below the level of the break.
What paralyzes muscles and make them floppy and reflexes are decreased or absent?
Some sort of damage at the spinal column. The nerves leading to the muscles are damaged or severed.
Severed spinal cord at the level 12 of the thoracic vertebra means what consequences?
Your legs shoudn't work anymore. Your legs shoudn't work anymore.
What cord mediated reflexes?
The knee and elbow reflexes
Do reflexes occur in the spinal cord?
the spinal cords role in reflexes is to help you move about when it is needed when reacting to a stimuli
Kyphosis is an exaggerated thoracic curvature and in?
The Thoracic region of the spinal column.
Do reflexes always involve the spinal cord?
Yes, the spinal cord controls ALL of your reflexes!
Severed spinal cord?
bad news
Spinal reflexes are produced in what?
Introduction. Spinal cord reflexes are simple behaviors produced by central nervous system (CNS) pathways that lie entirely within the spinal cord. The sensory afferent fibers that evoke these reflexes enter the spinal cord and activate spinal motor neurons directly or through a chain of one or more spinal interneurons
Which spinal nerves do not form plexus?
The spinal nerves that originate from the thoracic portion of the spinal cord don't form plexuses. The word thoracic pertains to the thorax.
What responsible for autonomic reflexes?
spinal cord
