Spinal Cord Definition

Spinal Cord Sentence Examples

• It excites the motor areas of the spinal cord and increases their reflex irritability.

• All potassium salts if taken in large doses are cardiac depressants, they also depress the nervous system, especially the brain and spinal cord.

• But the influence of the alkaloid upon the spinal cord is very marked and characteristic. The reflex functions of the cord are entirely abolished, and it has been experimentally shown that this is due to a direct influence upon the cells in the anterior cornua.

• There appears also to be a specific action of lowering the reflex excitability of the spinal cord.

• In large toxic and in lethal doses the activity of the spinal cord is lowered.