User talk:SilenceDeauxGood

Cauda equina?
I agree that the cauda equina starts higher up than the arrow in the previous picture was showing, but doesn't it also continue down to the level that the arrow was pointing to? I think this picture is at least partially correct. Perhaps it could be edited to better show the full length of the cauda equina. Unless I'm wrong and it ends before the level of the sacral plexus. Myoglobin (talk) 15:24, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

“End” of the C.E.
Technically speaking, the cauda equina doesn’t have an “end” in the sense that the spinal cord ends at the conus medullaris. The beginning of the cauda equina would be the conus medullaris and the “end” so to speak would be the nerve endings of the feet and toes.

Similar to a real horses tail, the conus would be the fleshy part protruding from the horses rump and the cauda equina is the bundle of hair extending from there. That bundle of hair (nerves) doesn’t have an “end” per se, it simply extends as far as it is able. SilenceDeauxGood (talk) 16:23, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Since it doesn't end in a way that is easy to illustrate, I think that arrow picture is good enough then; it's simply pointing to part of the middle of the structure. Now I just wonder whether the Filum terminale is also part of the cauda equina...Myoglobin (talk) 16:34, 5 February 2018 (UTC)