The SPINAL CORD

Anatomy and physiology

Prepared by ....
Mr . Jitendra Bhargav
Assistant lecturer
Spinal cord

Prapared by..
Mr.JITENDRA BHARGAV
The SPINAL CORD......
• The spinal cord is an elongated almost cylinderical part
of the CNS.which is ssuspendein vertebral canal
surroundede by the meniges and CSF,
• 2the spinal cord is continuous above with
• The medula oblongata and extended from to the
upper border of the Atlasfirst cervical
vertebraetothelower border of the 1st lumber
vertebra .
• 45cmng in adult males and is about the thicknes of
the little finger
The cranial nerve the spinal cord
is the nervous tissue link
between thebrainrand the rest of
the body .
2. Nervesconveying impulses
from the brain to the various
orgons and tissue decend
through the spinal cord
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