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The epithelial lining of the ventricles of the brain and the canal of the spinal cord; endyma; ependymis.

Conveying impressions from the surface of the body to the spinal cord; -- said of certain nerves. Opposed to exodic.

Conducting influences from the spinal cord outward; -- said of the motor or efferent nerves. Opposed to esodic.

ing of, ganglia or ganglion cells; as, a ganglionic artery; the ganglionic columns of the spinal cord.

A tumor springing from the neuroglia or connective tissue of the brain, spinal cord, or other portions of the nervous system.

fantile, characterized by inflammation of the anterior horns of the gray substance of the spinal cord. It is attended with febrile symptoms, motor paralysis, and muscular atrophy, often producing permanent deformities. Called also acute anterior poliomyelitis.

Below the spine; infraspinal; esp., below the spine of the scapula; as, the infraspinous fossa; the infraspinate muscle.

Conveying motion; as; kinesodic substance; -- applied esp. to the spinal cord, because it is capable of conveying doth voluntary and reflex motor impulses, without itself being affected by motor impulses applied to it directly.

or locomotion. Locomotor ataxia, or Progressive locomotor ataxy (Med.), a disease of the spinal cord characterized by peculiar disturbances of gait, and difficulty in coördinating voluntary movements.

That part of a human being or quadruped, which extends on either side of the spinal column between the hip bone and the false ribs. In human beings the loins are also called the reins. See Illust. of Beef.

aralysis. The principal lesion is an inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord.

variety of an ovoid form, and having a soft texture and fine grain resembling marrow. -- Spinal marrow. (Anat.) See Spinal cord, under Spinal.

a. Etym: [L., oblong medulla] (Anat.), the posterior part of the brain connected with the spinal cord. It includes all the hindbrain except the cerebellum and pons, and from it a large part of the cranial nerves arise. It controls very largely respiration, circulation, swallowing, and other functions, and is the most v…

m, the edges of which unite, making a tube (the medullary canal) from which the brain and spinal cord are developed. -- Medullary rays (Bot.), the rays of cellular tissue seen in a transverse section of exogenous wood, which pass from the pith to the bark. -- Medullary sheath (Anat.), the layer of white semifluid sub…

The three membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord; the pia mater, dura mater, and arachnoid membrane.

Inflammation of the membranes of the brain or spinal cord. Cerebro-spinal meningitis. See under Cerebro-spinal.

Of or pertaining to the myelencephalon; cerebro-spinal.

The brain and spinal cord; the cerebro-spinal axis; the neuron. Sometimes abbreviated to myelencephal.

Inflammation of the spinal marrow or its membranes.

The central canal of the spinal cord.