Spinal Cord Transverse Section

Near the spinal cord there is a bulge in the posterior dorsal.
Spinal cord transverse section. The dying tissue can cause the inflammation that leads to transverse myelitis. Signs and symptoms of transverse myelitis usually develop over a few hours to a few days and may sometimes. Consist of somatic sensory neuron cell bodies that synapse onto interneuron and or motor neuron cell bodies in the spinal gray matter.
Transverse myelitis can also be a warning sign of multiple sclerosis but this is rare. The exact reason for transverse. The white matter is made up of neuron axons mostly but not all myelinated.
The result can be weakness paralysis and other symptoms below the inflammation. The spinal cord brainstem interactive atlas a web based interactive anatomical atlas consisting of twenty seven plates of transverse sections of the spinal cord and brainstem. Transverse means it affects both sides of the same section of spinal cord.
Some people may also get transverse myelitis as a result of spinal injuries spinal defects or vascular diseases like atherosclerosis all of which can reduce the amount of oxygen in spinal cord tissue. Transverse section of the spinal cord. Its basic structure indicated in a schematic drawing of the eighth cervical segment fig.
Its basic structure indicated in a schematic drawing of the eighth cervical segment figure 2 1 is the same at every level a butterfl y shaped core of gray matter surrounded by white matter. Spinal cord summary anatomy of the spinal cord. It extends from the.
That disrupts nerve signals from the spinal cord to the body. Transverse myelitis is an inflammation of both sides of one section of the spinal cord. The spinal cord is a cylinder that is roughly 45 cm long and 1 cm wide.