Spinal Cord

Definition: Spinal Cord

Spinal Cord

Noun

1. A major part of the central nervous system which conducts sensory and motor nerve impulses to and from the brain; a long tube-like structure extending from the base of the brain through the vertebral canal to the upper lumbar region.

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Medicine

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Spinal Cord

Crosswords: Spinal Cord

Stops the brain from sending nerve messages down the spinal cord within thirty seconds. (The Rock; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Brain And Spinal Cord Tumors (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• ABC of Spinal Cord Injury (reference)

• Diseases of the Spine and Spinal Cord (Contemporary Neurology Series, 58) (reference)

• Intramedullary Spinal Cord Tumors (reference)

• Motor Neurobiology of the Spinal Cord (reference)

• Personal Health History: Spinal cord injury (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Sekitsui Sekizui Janaru = Spine And Spinal Cord (reference)

• Spinal Cord (reference)

• Topics In Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

When amebae infect the brain or spinal cord the condition is known as primary amebic meningoencephalitis, or PAM. Credit: CDC.

Histopathologic changes seen in a section of cervical spinal cord affected by poliomyelitis, using H&E stain. Credit: CDC.

Note the herpetic lesions on the palmar surface of the left ring finger. Living in the dorsal root ganglia of the spinal cord, under stressful conditions, the herpes viruses migrate along the pathways of peripheral nerve distribution. Credit: CDC.

Histology of normal anterior horn neurons of cervical spinal cord. Cresyl violet stain. Credit: CDC.

This patient had developed a perforating ulcer of great toe resulting from tabes dorsalis, a form of neurosyphilis. This condition results from the destruction of the dorsal columns in the spinal cord, normally responsible for ones position sense. Credit: CDC.

Neurosyphilis is a slowly progressive and destructive infection of the brain and spinal cord that occurs in untreated syphilis. Image shows bipolar, elongated microglia or rod cells characteristic of paretic neurosyphilis; Hortega Silver stain; Mag. 950X. Credit: CDC.

This image shows severe demyelinization of the posterior columns of the spinal cord due to long-standing syphilis disease. This can result in a staggering, wide-based gait, postural instability, pain and paresthesias; Myelin stain; magnification 450X. Credit: CDC.

Cresyl violet stain, used here to stain this section of cervical spinal cord, bonds well with acidic components that comprise the neuronal cytoarchitecture such as ribosomes, nuclei and nucleoli. Credit: CDC.

The poliovirus has an affinity for the anterior horn motor neurons of the cervical and lumbar regions of the spinal cord. Death of these cells causes muscle weakness of those muscles once innervated by the now dead neurons. Credit: CDC.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Several types of cells carry out spinal cord functions. (references)

Most types of immune cells enter the spinal cord only rarely. (references)

Many people with spinal cord tumors suffer a loss of sensation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "spinal cord": Bulb of the spinal cord ♦ Spinal Cord Compression ♦ Spinal Cord Diseases ♦ Spinal Cord Injuries ♦ Spinal Cord Ischemia ♦ Spinal Cord Neoplasms ♦ Spinal Cord Vascular Diseases. Additional references.

Albanian

palcë e kurrizit. (various references)

Arabic 

‏النخاع العظمي, ‏الحبل الشوكي. (various references)

Bulgarian 

гръбначен мозък (medulla, pith). (various references)

Czech

mícha. (various references)

Danish

rygmarven, rygmarv (spinal marrow). (various references)

Dutch

ruggemerg (cervical part of spinal cord, spinal marrow, thoracic part of the spinal cord). (various references)

Finnish

selkäydin. (various references)

French

moelle épinière (spinal marrow). (various references)

German

Rückenmark (medulla). (various references)

Greek 

νωτιαίοσ μυελόσ, νωτιαίος μυελός (spinal marrow). (various references)

Hebrew 

חוט �"ש�"ר�" (myel). (various references)

Hungarian

gerincagy. (various references)

Italian

midollo spinale (spinal marrow). (various references)

Manx

coyrd drommey. (various references)

Pig Latin

inalspay ordcay

Portuguese

medula espinal, espinal medula (spinal marrow), cordão espinhal. (various references)

Romanian

mãduva spinãrii (medulla, spinal marrow). (various references)

Russian 

спинной мозг (pith, spinal chord). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kičmena moždina. (various references)

Spanish

médula espinal (spinal marrow). (various references)

Swedish

ryggmärg (pith). (various references)

Turkish

omurilik (spinal marrow). (various references)

Welsh

madruddyn y cefn. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: croplands, dropsical, ironclads.

-2 letters: caldrons, clarions, cordials, cropland, ironclad, ordinals, parsonic, picadors, placoids, poniards, sardonic, spandril, spondaic, sporadic.

-3 letters: aldrins, alnicos, caldron, candors, caplins, carlins, clarion, codlins, cordial, dipolar, inclasp, inroads, ladinos, ladrons, lardons, nodical, oilcans, ordains, ordinal, padroni, pardons, parodic, picador, picaros, placoid, poniard, prolans, prosaic, sadiron, sarcoid, soprani, sparoid.

-4 letters: acorns, adonis.

+4 letters: achondroplasia, cephaloridines, reduplications.

+5 letters: achondroplasias, achondroplastic, paradoxicalness.