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The spinal cord is like the paint and walls of a house. The spinal cord holds everything together and it can be really dangerous if you break your spinal cord. One way to feel your spinal cord is press down on the back of your neck and you'll feel weirdly shaped bones.
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When your hand touches a hot stove you immediately pull it away. this action is controlled by your?
Spinal cord. It is called as reflex action.
What is a spinal cord signal?
An action potential.
Action handled by spinal cord?
The spinal cord channels nerve impulses from the rest of the body to the brain, and vice versa.
What action handled by spinal cord?
brain was right answer
Does the spinal cord control reflexes?
The spinal cord relays messages between the brain and body, making it possible to move and fell sensation.
What is the spinal condition where spinal cord grows and tightens the spinal cord?
Tethered Spinal Cord is a condition where the spinal cord is attached to the spinal column and that causes the cord to become stretched.
Give an example a reflex action?
brain and the spinal cord will reaction
What organ of the nervous system is bypassed in a reflex action?
spinal cord
Which is the control centre of a reflex action?
The nervous system.
What happens when messages reaches the brain and the spinal cord?
you do an action that the brain tells you to do
CAN reflex action controlled by spinal cord?
Simple reflexes are controlled by the spinal cord. The message travels from the sense receptors near the skin through the afferent nerve fibers to the spinal cord. In the spinal cord, the messages are relayed through association neurons to the efferent nerve fibers, which carry them to the muscle cells that cause the reflex movement.
What will happen if the spinal cord is cut or damaged in the neck?
We wont be able to walk properly and as the nerves are joined to the spinal cord the immediate action messages will take time to reach the brain and then there will be a problem in the proper functioning of the reflex action
