In fencing, a body cord serves as the connection between a fencer and a reel of wire that is part of a system for electrically detecting that the weapon...
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Fencing (section Governing body)
accordance. The main component of a set of electric equipment is the body cord. The body cord serves as the connection between a fencer and a reel of wire that...
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The spinal cord is a long, thin, tubular structure made up of nervous tissue that extends from the medulla oblongata in the lower brainstem to the lumbar...
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largest human body cavities are the ventral body cavity, and the dorsal body cavity. In the dorsal body cavity the brain and spinal cord are located. The...
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silver-colored, elastic cord which joins a person's physical body to its astral body (a manifestation of the physical body that is less distinct).[unreliable...
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A cord blood bank is a facility which stores umbilical cord blood for future use. Both private and public cord blood banks have developed in response to...
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Spinal cord stroke is a rare type of stroke with compromised blood flow to any region of spinal cord owing to occlusion or bleeding, leading to irreversible...
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Foil (fencing) (section Cord)
apparatus via the body cord and a wire that runs down a channel cut into the top of the blade. Electric foil sockets are fixed so that the body cord plugs into...
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of spinal cord injury may include loss of muscle function, sensation, or autonomic function in the parts of the body served by the spinal cord below the...
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In placental mammals, the umbilical cord (also called the navel string, birth cord or funiculus umbilicalis) is a conduit between the developing embryo...
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Tethered cord syndrome (TCS) refers to a group of neurological disorders that relate to malformations of the spinal cord. Various forms include tight...
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nuchal cord is when the umbilical cord becomes wrapped around the fetus's neck. Symptoms present in the baby shortly after birth from a prior nuchal cord may...
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The Cord 810, and later Cord 812, was a luxury automobile produced by the Cord Automobile division of the Auburn Automobile Company in 1936 and 1937. It...
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quality of life. Damage to the spinal cord impairs its ability to transmit messages between the brain and parts of the body below the level of the lesion. This...
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Spinal nerve (redirect from Thoracic spinal cord)
motor, sensory, and autonomic signals between the spinal cord and the body. In the human body there are 31 pairs of spinal nerves, one on each side of...
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scoring area and register contact with it. Lamés are wired by use of a body cord to a scoring machine, which allows the other person's weapon to register...
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the vertebrate spinal cord. The ventral nerve cord coordinates neural signaling from the brain to the body and vice versa, integrating sensory input and...
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body is located in the motor cortex, brainstem or the spinal cord, and whose axon (fiber) projects to the spinal cord or outside of the spinal cord to...
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Myelomalacia (section Spinal cord injury)
Myelomalacia is a pathological term referring to the softening of the spinal cord. Possible causes of myelomalacia include cervical myelopathy, hemorrhagic...
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neurons), that emanate from the brain and spinal cord, and branch repeatedly to innervate every part of the body. Nerves are large enough to have been recognized...
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surrounds the spinal cord, which is a collection of nerve fibres connecting the brain to the rest of the body. Nerves connect the spinal cord and brain to the...
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Tetraplegia (section Complete spinal-cord lesions)
other major body regions; this is often not the case. Some tetraplegics can walk and use their hands, as though they did not have a spinal cord injury, while...
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Dorsal column–medial lemniscus pathway (category Spinal cord tracts)
half of the body is received at the cervical level of the spinal cord and carried in the cuneate tract, and information from the lower body is received...
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black card can also be used to expel a third party disrupting the match. Body cord The insulated wire that runs under a fencer's jacket, connecting the electrical...
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Vertebral column (section Spinal cord)
encloses and protects the spinal cord, with spinal nerves exiting via the intervertebral foramina to innervate each body segments. There are around 50,000...
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Central nervous system (section Spinal cord)
Within the meninges the brain and spinal cord are bathed in cerebral spinal fluid which replaces the body fluid found outside the cells of all bilateral...
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Velamentous cord insertion is a complication of pregnancy where the umbilical cord is inserted in the fetal membranes. It is a major cause of antepartum...
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42°22′47″N 83°01′44″W / 42.379617°N 83.028928°W / 42.379617; -83.028928 Cord was a brand of American luxury automobile manufactured by the Auburn Automobile...
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housing the brain and the spinal cavity housing the spinal cord. The brain and spinal cord make up the central nervous system. The two cavities are continuous...
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inflammation of the spinal cord which can disrupt the normal responses from the brain to the rest of the body, and from the rest of the body to the brain. Inflammation...
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