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1. what assessment findings are associated with injuries of the spinal cord at the thoracic level A spinal cord injury what is this injury? It is damage to the spinal cord that causes temporary or permanent changes in its function. how does it happen? Injury can occur at any level of the spinal cord and can be "complete injury", with a total loss of sensation and muscle function at lower sacral segments, or "incomplete", meaning some nervous signals are able to travel past the injured area of the cord up to the Sacral S4-5 spinal cord segments. what is the definition of this aforesaid cord? The spinal cord is a long, thin, tubular structure made up of nervous tissue, which extends from the medulla oblongata in the brainstem to the lumbar region of the vertebral column. what is the medical importance of this structure? The spinal cord functions primarily in the transmission of nerve signals from the motor cortex to the body, and from the afferent fibers of the sensory neurons to the sensory cortex. what is the last mentioned thing? The sensory cortex can refer informally to the primary somatosensory cortex, or it can be used as a term for the primary and secondary cortices of the different senses
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Sensory cortex [SEP] Introduction
The sensory cortex can refer informally to the primary somatosensory cortex, or it can be used as a term for the primary and secondary cortices of the different senses (two cortices each, on left and right hemisphere): the visual cortex on the occipital lobes, the auditory cortex on the temporal lobes, the primary olfactory cortex on the uncus of the piriform region of the temporal lobes, the gustatory cortex on the insular lobe (also referred to as the insular cortex), and the primary somatosensory cortex on the anterior parietal lobes. Just posterior to the primary somatosensory cortex lies the somatosensory association cortex, which integrates sensory information from the primary somatosensory cortex (temperature, pressure, etc.) to construct an understanding of the object being felt.