Spinal Cord

Symptoms of concussion include drowsyness and vomiting, headache and fainting.

Symptoms of a spinal cord injury include numbness of the body, pins and needles, weakness or loss of function in the limbs, reduced respiratory capacity and vomiting.

White Matter

The medical term for a record of the spinal cord is myelogram. Though very accurate, taking a myelogram is associated with risks mostly due to exposure to X-rays.

You can certainly die from a leak in your spinal fluid. This fluid supports all function between your spine and your brain.

Forgive me if I'm wrong, bu I think that the vocal chords are located in the larynx. Another name for the larynx is the voice box, and inside it are the vocal chords.

Vocal chords are thin bands of tissue that vibrate when exhaled air rushes past them; this enables you to make sounds when you speak or sing.

I was just studying this material for a science test that I have tomorrow, lol ^_^ . 2. Larynx is correct.

from spinal nerve to posterior (dorsal) root

"The cerebrospinal fluid is produced at a rate of 500 ml/day. Since the brain can only contain from 135-150 ml, large amounts are drained primarily into the blood through arachnoid granulations in the superior sagittal sinus. Thus the CSF turns over about 3.7 times a day. This continuous flow into the venous system dilutes the concentration of larger, lipoinsoluble molecules penetrating the brain and CSF.[2]"- taken from wikipedia I ended up looking for the awnser to this question because of an episode of Fringe [28april09] - basically the guy would have been fine.

Nervous Tissue

a spinal cord can have tumors, meningitis, which is the inflammation of the thin tissue that surrounds the brain and spinal cords, poliomyelitis which attacks your nervous system and can cause paralysis, inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases, digenerative diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis which attacks neurons and causes trouble walking, running, writing, and speech problems.

Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) original answer by btbchris

Your brain is protected by bone which is your skull. Your spinal cord is also protected by bone known as vertebrae.

Actually in the biology textbook it is called cerebrospinal fluid.

The nerves which make up the spinal cord are the direct route between the brain and the body, and are so immense in their complexities that it is incredibly difficult to repair, replace or emulate their function. The cells are also so specific in their function that many lack the capacity to divide and repair themselves. This means they cannot self repair, or be repaired as we simply lack the knowledge, technology and ability to repair them at this moment in time.

Fourth thoracic

The main relay center for transferring information from the spinal cord to the cerebrum is the brain stem. This part of the brain is the simplest, but most important part of its anatomy.

Gray commissure

The tissue in the spinal cord is composed of nervous tissue.

CENTRAL

nope, it's tasteless and clear

That's called the cauda equina because it resembles a horses tail.

Yes, the spinal cord controls ALL of your reflexes!

• cerebellum.
• because, it co-ordinates mascular activities when we walk , jump, run etc and maintain the balance of body.
• if we have uncoordinated movement , may be the cerebellum is damaged.

Your spinal cord is about the diameter of your finger.

brainandspinalcord.org

I'm looking over a diagram and a chart listing all of the different segments of the adult spinal cord and I don't see any segment labeled "D". There's "C", "T", "L", and "S" but no "D".

yes

There are 33 vertebrae in the spinal cord of a human being. They are broadly categorized into 5 areas. They are called the cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacrum & coccyx vertebra. The upper 3 areas have a total of 24 vertebrae, which includes 7 cervical vertebrae, 12 thoracic vertebrae & 5 lumbar vertebrae. Sometimes the lumbar region, may have an additional vertebra, it does happen - but it is rare. 5 vertebrae are fused together to form the sacrum & 3 vertebrae form the end of the spinal column which is the coccyx.