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What does the medical abbreviation SCI mean?
Spinal Cord InjuryIn medical terms, SCI stands for spinal cord injury.1) Science2) Spinal Cord Injuryspinal cord injury
What does T7 paraplegic mean?
A paraplegic is a person who has a spinal cord injury that leaves them paralyzed from the waist down. A patient who is described as a T7-8 paraplegic has a spinal cord injury at the 7th and 8th Thoracic spinal vertebrae region of their body.
What does paralysing mean?
Being unable to move, usually caused by an injury to the spinal cord.
What does spinal cord mean?
What does spinal cord mean?
What does T7-8 paraplegic mean?
A paraplegic is a person who has a spinal cord injury that leaves them paralyzed from the waist down. A patient who is described as a T7-8 paraplegic has a spinal cord injury at the 7th and 8th Thoracic spinal vertebrae region of their body.
What does effacement mean in a spinal cord context?
It would mean that through injury or disease, some part of your spinal anatomy had become shortened, or narrowed.
Why does paralysis occur when someone injures their spinal cord?
The spinal cord is the main line that brings all nerve signals back to the brain so when this is damaged it interrupts the line. When the line is damaged bad enough the signal cannot pass and therefore cannot communicate with the brain. When for example the legs can no longer communicate with the brain they can no longer receive the "orders" to move, meaning paralysis.
What does invertibre mean?
A living thing that does not have a spinal cord.
Which organ system contains your spainiel cord?
You mean your spinal cord? That would be the Nervous System.
Can you walk without a tailbone?
Probably not. This area is where many nerves come from the spinal cord to leg muscles. It would be a good chance that no tail bone would mean an incomplete development of those nerves.
First aid for suspected brain injury includes placing a pillow or similar substitute under victim's shoulders and head?
NO!!!! That would mean you are manipulating the spine. If you suspect a brain injury, then you need to suspect trauma to the spinal cord as well.
Your MRI showed you have a syrinx in the distal end of your spinal cord what does that mean?
Syringomyelia is a disorder in which a cyst forms within the spinal cord. This cyst aka syrinx expands over time, destroying a portion of the spinal cord from its center and expanding outward.
