Skip to main content

Jill Lasheski

Go Search
Home
Mentors Blog
Tech FAQ
  
Teacher Web Sites > Jill Lasheski > Class Handouts > spinal cord  

Spinal Cord

-Opposite of brain with gray matter on the inside, and white matter on the outside
 
-Sensory info enters through dorsal root, motor info is sent out through ventral root
 
-31 spinal nerves:
8-cervical
12-thoracic
5-lumber
6-sacral
 
-thicker in the cervical and lumbar regions where the nerves for the arms and legs branch off