KINESIOL 1Y03 Lecture 7: Spinal Cord and Spinal Nerves

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: KINESIOL 1Y03
• Professor: Krista Howarth

Document Summary

These holes make a canal known as the vertebral canal, this is where the spinal cord is located. The curve of the spinal cord also needs to curve. The spinal cord is smaller than the vertebral column is larger because the vertebral column keeps extending until you are 18-24 years old. Communication link between the brain and the pns (below the head) Determines where sensory information needs to go and can create motor responses motor responses. The l2 is where the last rib is on your ribcage. Composed of cervical, thoracic, lumbar and sacral segments. Regions of the spinal cord that get large to accommodate for certain structures. Conus medullaris- the inferior end of the spinal cord. Nerves supplying the lower limbs exit ls enlargement- course down through vertebral canal- exit via foramina. Meninges are continues with the meninges in the brain. Continuous with the brain and epineurium of spinal nerves. There is a space between bone and dura mater.