In this condition, the prenatal spinal deformities result in only the meninges, and not the spinal nerves, slipping into the gaps between the deformed vertebrae.
Since the spinal nerves are undamaged, people with this form of the disorder are often asymptomatic, and the condition is usually only found accidently later in life.
For peripheral nerves, the cell body can either be located in the spinal cord where it's called a spinal nerve or the brain where it's called a cranial nerve.
Some unique symptoms are that the pain of osteoid osteoma typically gets worse at night, while osteochondromas and osteoblastomas sometimes press against spinal nerves, causing numbness and limb weakness.
There are 31 pairs of nerves originating from the spinal cord called spinal nerves; there are 8 cervical, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar, 5 sacral and 1 coccygeal.
PNS consists of total 43 pairs of nerve, among which 12 originate in brain, named as cranial nerves and 31 originate from spinal cord, hence called as spinal nerves.
Transverse means extending completely across something, in this case, it refers to going across the spinal cord, and myelitis means inflammation of myelin, which is the fatty substance surrounding nerves.
The Peripheral Nervous System. The peripheral nervous system includes 12 cranial nerves and 31 pairs of spinal nerves. It can be subdivided into the somatic and autonomic nervous systems.
These are grouped into 8 pairs of cervical nerves, 12 pairs of thoracic nerves, 5 pairs of lumbar nerves, 5 pairs of sacral nerves and 1 pair of coccygeal nerves.
It's formed by the spinal nerves L4, L5 and S1, 2 and 3, which leave the spinal canal through the intervertebral foramen, an opening located between the vertebrae and behind intervertebral discs.