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Spinal Cord

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Noun

1. medulla spinalis, spinal cord

a major part of the central nervous system which conducts sensory and motor nerve impulses to and from the brain; a long tubelike structure extending from the base of the brain through the vertebral canal to the upper lumbar region

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Spinal Cord

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noun
the thick cord of nerve tissue within the spinal canal, which in humans gives rise to 31 pairs of spinal nerves, and together with the brain forms the central nervous system

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Spinal Cord

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the thick cord of nerve tissue of the central nervous system, extending down the spinal canal from the medulla oblongata

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Spinal Cord

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n.
The thick, whitish cord of nerve tissue that extends from the medulla oblongata down through the spinal column and from which the spinal nerves branch off to various parts of the body.

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