A scanner using magnetic energy to give a clear black and white picture of the brain and cervical canal.
Toward or near the middle of the body.
Portion of the brain stem located between the pons and the spinal cord.
A group of three membranes that covers the brain and spinal cord. Closest to the brain and spinal cord is the pia, then the arachnoid, and the outermost covering is the dura.
Infection or swelling of the membrane (meninges) that covers the brain and spinal cord.
Refers to the meninges, membranes covering the brain and spinal cord.
The midbrain, one of three primitive cerebral sacs from which develop the copora quadrigemina, the crura cerebri, and the aqueduct of Sylvius.
Smallest of the cerebral convolutions.
A condition with irregular uncontrollable movements.
Refers to the spinal cord.
Defective formation of the spinal cord.
X-ray inspection of the spinal cord by use of a radiopaque medium injected into the intrathecal space (area within the spinal cord) of the spine.
Form of spina bifida in which portions of the spinal cord and its membranes protrude through the open space in the vertebral column.
Surgical severing of nerve fibers of the spinal cord.
