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| two main functions of spinal cord |
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| information integration, nerve impulse propagation "highways' |
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| what is white matter made of? |
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| dozens of major sensory and motor tracts |
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| _____ pathway for sensory input |
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| white tracts are white because? |
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| because they are myelinated |
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| name the different sets of columns ( |
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| 2 posterior, 2lateral, and 2 anterior white columns |
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| what does gray matter do? |
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| processes reflexes in the integration center |
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| sensory neuron, sensory receptor, integrating center, motor neuron, effector |
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| what makes gray matter gray |
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| nissel bodies, dendrites, unmylenated bodies |
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| 2 types of connective tissue that protect spinal cord |
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| protect, cushion spinal cord |
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| what forms the vertebral canal |
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| what do you call the meninges of the brain |
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| ____ surrounds the spinal cord |
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| the subdural space contains what fluid |
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| the arachnoid space contains what fluid |
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