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Myeloneuritis is inflammation of the spinal cord and nerves. Meningitis is inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord.
Myeloneuritis is inflammation of the spinal cord and nerves. Meningitis is inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord.
Meningitis is the medical term meaning inflammation of the tissue that encloses the spinal cord and brain.
The inflammation of the meninges, brain and the spinal cord is meningoencephalomyelitis. Mening/o-meninges encephal/o-brain; Myel/o-spinal cord/ bone marrow; itis-inflammtion. Meningitis is inflammation of the only the meninges, which are the covering of the brain and spinal cord. Meningitis does not encompass the spinal cord and brain.
Inflammation of the spinal cord is called Myelitis.
It means an inflammation ... "itis" ... of the meninges (membranes around the brain and spinal cord).Inflammation of the meninges (or coverings of the brain).
Meningitis is inflammation of the meninges. Inflammation of the liver is hepatitis.
The brain is superior to the spinal cord.
The brain stem connects the brain to the spinal cord, so that the brain can send messages through the cord to the rest of the body. The functioning of the body is severely compromised if the spinal cord connections are severed.
There is no joint between brain and spinal cord. The spinal cord is a mass of neurones that is situated in the backbone which feeds in to the brain via neurones.
Membranes called meninges cover and protect the brain and spinal cord. The skull and spinal column also protect the brain and spinal cord, respectively. The spinal cord is made up by individual vertebrae.
Myelitis is the term for inflammation of the spinal cord.