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About how many neurons are there?

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100 million

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The spinal cord and its associated spinal nerves contain _____ ______ that control your most …?

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`Reflex circuits, most rapid reactions to environmental changes

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What is gray matter?

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In the spinal cord contains major of postsynaptic potentials (EPSP and IPSP)

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What is white matter?

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In the spinal cord contains major sensroy and motor tracts to and from the brain

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The spinal cord begins as a continuation of the ______ ______.

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Medulla oblongata

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The spinal cord extends from the _______ ______ of the occipital bone to its termination at the _______ ________ between ____- ____.

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Foramen magnum, conus medullaris, L1-L2

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As the cord arises from the conus medullaris, this region is called?

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Filum terminale

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What is the filum terminale?

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Slender strand of fibrous tissue that provides support to the spinal cord

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The cauda equina also known as the horses tail are the what?

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Roots of the lower spinal nerves that angle down alongside to filum terminale

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The spinal cord has two enlargements, what are they?

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One in the cervical are from c4-T1 and anohte rin the lumbar area between T9- T12

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The cervical enlargement correlates with the ________ ______ and _______ ______ to the ______ exteremities.

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Sensory inputs and motor outputs, 

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The lumbar enlargement handles the ____ _____ and _____ ______ to and from the ______.

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Motor outputs, sensory inputs, legs

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From superior to inferior, the spinal cord becomes progressively what?

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Smaller

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There is less and less _____ matter as we descend. Why?

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White; because less and less white matter as we descend because there are fewer sensory tracts going up and there are fewer motor tracts going down

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What are the protection of the spinal cord?

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Bone

Meninges

CSF (cerbral spinal cord)

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What are the 3 meninges?

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Dura mater 

Arachnoid mater

Pia mater

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The dura mater is made up of lots of what type of fibers?

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Collagen fibers and is tough

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The arachnoid mater is made up of what?

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Spiderweb like middle laber of fibers

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The pia mater is…?

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Delicate layer right close to the spinal cord

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What are the 3 potential spaces in the spinal cord?

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Epidural: outside area

Subdural: between dura and arachnoid

Subarachnoid: deep to arachnoid

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What is the dura mater?

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Tough outer coverung that is formed of collagen fibers

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When the dura mater reaches the sacral canal, the dura mater does what?

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tapers and blends wth components of the film terminal and forms the coccygeal ligament

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What is the epidural space?

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External to the dura mater

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Anesthetics are often injected into the epidural space

Injection into thecorrect space is vital and mistakes can be vital

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For fun knwo these

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The arachnoid mater is the...?
Middle layer with weblike extensions
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The arachnoid mater is separated from the _____ ______ by _____ ______
Dura mater, subdural space
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What is the subarahnoid space?
Bewteen arachnoid and pia mater that contains CSF and blood vessels
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What allows for CSF reasorption?
Arachnoid villi
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What is a lumbar puncture?
Needle introduced into subarachnoid space to collect CSF The lumbar spine needs to be flexed so can go between the spinous processes
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What is the pia mater?
Delicate layer that adheres to the neural tissue that is made up of elastic and collagen fibers
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What do the two _______ grooves divide the spinal cord into ____ and ______ halves.
Lengthwise, right and left
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What are the two halves?
Ventral (anterior) median fissure Dorsal (posterior) median sulcus (shallower)
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What is the gray matter?
The region of spinal cord that is for integration and initiates commands
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What is the white matter?
Area that carries information from place to place
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The gray commissure encloses the?
Central canal
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The gray commissure is the?
Connection of the lateral masses of gray matters
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Overall, the gray matter reflects the amount of...?
Skeletal muscel innervation at that level
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There is more skeletal muscle innervation in the?
Cervical and lumbar space
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What are the portions of the gray matter in the spinal cord?
Dorsal (posterior) horns Ventral (anterior) horns Lateral horns
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The dorsal horns are...?
Interneurons that receive somatic and visceral sensory input
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Dorsal horns is the ______ site between the...?
Synapse site First order sensroy neurons coming from the periphery to second order neurons which ascend the cord or exit back out as parts of reflex arcs
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The ventral horns are the?
Somatic motor neuron cell bodies whose axons ext the cord via ventral roots
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The lateral horns are the?
Cell bodies of autonomic (sympathetic) motor neruons serving visceral organs
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The lateral horns are only located in the?
Only thoracic and lumbar regions
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the visceral neurons reach the?
Cardiac and smooth muscle
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The somatic neurons innervate?
Skeletal muscle
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What is a tract?
Bundle of neuronal axons that are all located in a specific area of the cord and all traveling to the same place. Higher or lower in the brain or cord
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The white matter of the cord is divided into what parts?
Dorsal (posterior) horn, ventral (anterior) horn, lateral horn
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The ascending sensory tracts are travling to the ______.
Brain
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Desending motor tracts are traveling to _____ _____
Spinal cord
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he ventral root o the spinal cord is the _______ tract aka _____ tract containing what type of fibers?
Efferent tract, output tract, contianing somatic and autonomic/visceral fibers (axons)
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What does the ventral root serves the _______ division of the PNS.
Sensroy division
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The doesal root ganglia is the?
Enlargement of dorsal root that contains cell bodies of sensroy neurons
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Ventral and dorsal roots are _____ and _____ to form the ______ ______ all along the spinal cord.
Short, fuse, spinal nerves
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The ventral roots innervate the?
Skeletal muscels
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THe dorsal roots conduct impulses from the _______ _____.
Peripheral receptors
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How many pairs of spinal nerves are there?
31
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HOW many of each type of spinal nerve?
8 cervical 12 thoracic 5 lumbar  5 sacral 1 coccygeal
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Where do spinal nerves exit from and into?
From Central nervous system into peripheral nervous system
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ONce it enters the peripheral nervous system, they immediately split into...?
3 branches
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What are the 3 branches that the spinal nerve will form in the PNS?
Ventral ramus, dorsal ramus, rami communicantes
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The spinal nerves are _______ of ______ and _________ peripheral axons enclosed by ______ ______.
Bundles, myelinated and unmyelinated, connective tissue
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The back is innervated by ______ ______ via several _______.
Dorsal rami, branches
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The ventral rami of T2- T12 are ___________ nerve supply the muscels of the _____, ___________ _____ and _______ wall.
Intercostal, ribs, anterolateral thorax, and abdomial wall
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All ventral rami except for ________ form networks called plexus
T2-T12
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What are the plexuses?
Cervical  Brachial Lumbar Sacral
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What is the cervical plexus formed by?
Ventral rami of C1-C4
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What does the cervical plexus innervate?
Skin and muscles of the head, neck, and shoulders, and diaphragm
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What is the phrenic nerve?
Major motor nerve and sensory nerve of the diaphragm 
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The phrenic nerve receives fibers from the ___- ___?
C3-C5
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What is the brachial pexus fromed from?
C5-C8 and T1
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What does the brachial plexus give rise to?
Gives rise to nerves that innervate the upper limbs
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What are the major branches of the brachial plexus?
Axillary, median, ulnar, radial
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The ulnar nerve is the largest _________ nerve.
Unprotected
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What does the ulnar nerve supply?
Median half of the hand
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The lumbar plexus arises from the..?
Ventral rami of L1-L4
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What does the lumbar plexus innervate?
Innervates the anterolateral abdominal wall, external genetalia, parts of the lower limb and psoas muscle
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What are the majro branches of the lumbar plexus?
Femoral nerve Obturator nerve
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Thesacral plexus arises from the...?
Ventral rami of L4-L5 and S1-S4
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What does the sacral plexus innervate?
Serves buttocks, pelvic, structures, perineum, and lower limb
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The sciatic nerve is the ____ and _____ nerve.
Longest and thickest
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The sciatic nerve innervates the...?
Hamstring, adductor magnus, and most muscles in the leg and foot
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The sciatic nerve is composed of two nerves, what are they?
Common fibular, and tibial
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What is the dermatome?
Area of skin innervated by the cutaneous branches of a singel pinal nerve
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All spinal nerves except for _____, participate in dermatoems
C1
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Most dermatomes overlap, so if one is destroyed what happens?
Spinal nerves will not cause complete numbness
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What are inborn reflexes?
Rapid, involuntary (autonomic), predicatble motor response to a stimulus
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Learned (aquired) reflexes are...?
Resulting from practice or repetition
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What is the reflex arc?
Pathway that a nerve impulse follows to produce a reflex
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Study the reflex arc diagram in notes
PLEASE
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In a spinal reflex the integration takes place in the _____ ____ not the _____.
Spinal cord not the brain
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The spinal reflexes can go in an out on the ____ or the ________ side of the cord
Same or opposite
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What are the two types of spinal relexes?
Monosynaptic and polysynaptic
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What is the monosynaptic spinal reflexes?
Sensory neuron with motor neuron
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What is the polysynaptic spinal reflex?
Involving interneurons

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