Talk:Spinal cord/Archive 1

Sonic the Hedgehog?
In this edit, someone added a lot of really good sounding text, but they say the factor SHH is called Sonic Hedgehog. No way, right? What is it really called? Could someone who knows about this stuff look through the history and review all of this person's contributions? Failing that, should we remove them? If I'm wrong and it's actually called that, a thousand pardons and please revert me because I commented it out in the article. delldot  talk  18:44, 9 May 2007 (UTC)


 * My bad! The person who made the additions confirmed that that's what it's really called, and it's been reverted. Should have my homework better.   delldot   talk  19:44, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Editing
This article needs formatting and clean up. The content is good, but some of the paragraphs are too long, and hard to read, and the section on spinal cord injury needs its own article. The text should be in the present tense rather than the future, for readability.Bwthemoose 13:40, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Decent Pictures
Can someone get/make some decent visuals. Half of the images on this page look like they were drawn in MSPaint! PlopperZ (talk) 06:37, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Spinal Cord Picture
It may sound like a somewhat odd request, but do you think we could find a picture of an intact spinal cord? It's like looking at a picture of a mashed up brain.- Moshe Constantine Hassan Al-Silverburg | Talk 05:43, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Why do all the images show a cross section of the spinal cord, but there are no images of it's length? Or an image that shows where nerves split off to various regions of the body? At the least, the first image in the article should show the relationship between the spinal cord, the spine, and the brain. Emok (talk) 04:24, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

There is a good, color coded image of the spine with colors corresponding to that part of the spinal cord's motor functions on the spinal cord injury article. I think it would make a good image on this article. 24.131.148.131 (talk) 23:18, 24 March 2009 (UTC)LeftHandSum

i just want to know more about spinal cord, because my husband just this lately we had a check up and found out tht his T2 and T12 had a slighthly dislocate. can you help me advice? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.131.139.115 (talk) 06:07, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

A Suggestion
It is noted twice within the first two paragraphs that the average spinal cord length of a man is 45 cm long and of a woman 43 cm long. I would suggest that these are consolidated by someone with greater editing prowess than I Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.86.124.46 (talk) 21:54, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

lack of spinal fluid
our grandson has had three spinal taps he is 19 days old and they can not find any fluid. what can this mean? He had surgery four days ago for Hirschsprung's Disease and had two thirds of his intestines removed. The past few days he has had a fever of 102. Can anyone give me insight to what all this might mean? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 1grammy1 (talk • contribs) 02:59, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but there is an absolute rule against giving medical advice on Wikipedia. Looie496 (talk) 17:04, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Tetraplegia vs. Quadriplegia
Under Spinal Cord Injuries, "tetraplegia" and "quadriplegia" are listed separately, but from what I can find, they are simply two phrases that mean the same thing. I think this is misleading, as it gives the impression that tetraplegia is a third, separate condition, when it is not. I'd suggest that it be removed and the article simply mention paraplegia and quadriplegia(full body paralysis) TheAdmiral (talk) 06:50, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Replace all versions of image of tracts with newer one?
I've modified the image of the spinal cord tracts. Any feedback would be appreciated. Also, I wonder if it wound be a good idea to replace the previous version with the updated one in all articles where it appears, for example by uploading the new version as the previous one in Commons? Mikael Häggström (talk) 12:29, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Just for information, I now replaced it in most articles in English Wikipedia. Mikael Häggström (talk) 20:29, 23 July 2010 (UTC)


 * And I removed the following images from the already overcrowded article. Find a context before adding them back or create a gallery section.
 * Image:Spinal cord direv.svg
 * Image:Spinalcord trirev.svg
 * Image:Medulla spinalis - Section - English.svg
 * Image:Spinalcord trirev rexedlamina.svg
 * Image:alarplate.svg
 * Image:Spinal cord tracts - English.svg
 * --Fama Clamosa (talk) 18:49, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Keep it metric
This is a medical/anatomical article and thus metric system should be used exclusively, with USC equivalents in parentheses if at all. All medical literature is metric, even the venerable Gray's Anatomy. Please keep this in mind when including measurements, since you're rendering key areas of your article meaningless to many people around the world. English is the international language, and metric is the international measurement system, used by 95% of the world's population on daily basis. It would be nice for some people to step outside the American bubble.

So using 1/4 and 1/2 inches in this article to indicate the width of the spinal cord is ridiculous. The actual width is in the proximity of 1 cm. If your references are in inches only, throw them out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.110.0.1 (talk) 15:07, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Portions of the article need to be re-written
I feel that portions of this article need to be rewritten and reorganised. Although most of the information is already contained in the article, the basic anatomical and functional organisation of the spinal cord is not apparent from this article and appears rather confusing. A model page on the structure of the page can be found here. The remaining information can be interspersed within this structure.  D ip ta ns hu Talk 05:13, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Article is not inclusive
Article immediately begins talking about the human spinal cord and applicable medicine, instead of addressing the article from a standpoint of general biology and evolution first. Should be changed to a consideration of material with precedent. Never actually addresses what the spinal cord is. Human spinal cord should be split into it's own article, with a sizeable mention on this page, due to depth of available medical information and other considerations. --IronMaidenRocks (talk) 03:52, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Health
Where is spinal cord is located? I don't know its answer. Is vertebral foramen is the answer. Sabinewar (talk) 13:03, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

Maths
786786÷77878 2409:4053:80B:A44E:F5D5:132B:F134:9941 (talk) 16:25, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

Science B
Write the function of spinal cord. 45.119.12.90 (talk) 02:46, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Clinical anatomy of spinal cord
The spinal cord start from brainstem and passes through foramen Magnum and ends in cauda equina of lumbar region the spinal cord consist of three layer covering called meninges the outer layer is duramatter middle arachnoid membrane and inner piamatter 46.251.200.149 (talk) 12:01, 17 February 2022 (UTC)