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Cervical enlargement

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The reason behind the enlargement of the cervical region is because of the increased neural input and output to the upper limbs.
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at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center - "Vertebral Canal and Spinal Cord: Regions of the Spinal Cord"
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Knowledge (XXG) articles incorporating text from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)
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at the University of Michigan Health System - "Spinal Cord, Fetus, Posterior View"
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Diagrams of the medulla spinalis. (Cervical enlargement labeled at upper right.)
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corresponds with the attachments of the large nerves which supply the
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at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University)
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Widened area of spinal cord attaching to upper limb nerves
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An analogous region in the lower limbs occurs at the
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Anatomical terminology
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upper limbs
brachial plexus
cervical
thoracic vertebra
cervical nerves
lumbar enlargement
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Lumbar enlargement
Conus medullaris
Filum terminale

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