Moyamoya disease is a cerebrovascular disorder. It is a rare condition in which the walls of the "internal" carotid arteries - which supply blood to important areas of the brain - become thickened.
Myelitis is the term for inflammation of the spinal cord.
Myelopathy is any disease or pathological condition of the spinal cord.
Paraplegia is caused by trauma or disease of the spinal cord below the cervical portion of the spinal cord.
Myelopathy is the medical term meaning disease of the gray matter of the spinal cord. Inflammation of the spinal cord is myelitis.
Spinal fluid leaks can be caused by punctures or disease in the spinal cord.
spinal MENINGITIS is a bacterial disease that attacks the spinal cord. it causes inflammation of the membranes enclosing the spinal cord. it is especially fatal in infants and young children.
The central nervous system is composed of the brain, brain stem, and spinal cord. Efferent nerves travel from the brain, through the spinal cord, to the rest of the body. Afferent nerves travel from the body, back up the spinal cord, and back to the brain.
ALS, often referred to as "Lou Gehrig's Disease," is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Motor neurons reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body. The progressive degeneration of the motor neurons in ALS eventually leads to their death.
abnormal softening of the brain is known as
Myelitis is a term that is generally used to denote inflammation or infection of the spinal cord.
spinal nerves to exit the spinal cord and travel to the rest of the body.
Tethered Spinal Cord is a condition where the spinal cord is attached to the spinal column and that causes the cord to become stretched.