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the spinal cord is important bc - ✔✔transmits sensory info to the brain

regulates motor and autonomic senses

regulates reflexes

sensory info TO the brain goes through what tracts/roots - ✔✔dorsal roots

and ascending tracts

sensory into TO the somatic and visceral sites go through what tracts/roots

- ✔✔ventral roots

descending tracts

comes in through _______ root to the brain and then out to the periphery

through ________ roots - ✔✔dorsal, ventral

the spinal cord extends from - ✔✔the foramen magnum to the rostral edge

of L2

3 coverings of the spinal cord (in order from outer to inner) - ✔✔dura

arachnoid

pia mater

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end of the spinal cord is the - ✔✔conus medullaris (cone shaped end)

thick filament that is enclosed in PIA MATER and made of GLIAL CELLS -

✔✔filum terminale internum

where does the filum terminale internum extend from - ✔✔conus medularis

to the caudal end of the dural sac

anchors the spinal cord to the end of the vertebral column - ✔✔coccygeal

ligament or the filum terminalis external

looks like a horse tail and is made up of a bunch of spinal nerves -

✔✔cauda equina

the widest subarachnoid space from the end of the spinal cord down to the

S2 - ✔✔lumbar cistern

where do you get a lumbar puncture - ✔✔LUMBAR CISTERN

what is the spinal segmentation - ✔✔site where the spinal nerves emerge

from the spinal cord

what root does AFFERENT fibers and signals FROM THE PERIPHERY TO

THE SPINAL CORD/BRAIN - ✔✔dorsal

what root does EFFERENT fibers and sends signals FROM THE BRAIN

TO THE PERIPHERY - ✔✔ventral