From your stool you may be able to get clues about your diet, your gastrointestinal health, and even whether your stress, anger, or anxiety levels are too high. HOW FOOD BECOMES STOOL. From the moment food enters your mouth, your body embarks on a campaign to turn it into a soupy mush called chyme.
We are unable to collect your feedback at this time. At the base of the spinal column, near the first lumbar vertebra, is a collection of nerves called the cauda equina. They are called this because they resemble a horse's tail. Just above the cauda equina, the spinal cord ends and it continues on as this collection of spinal nerves through the vertebral canal. The cauda equina has approximately 10 fiber pairs at its base.
The coccyx (/ËkÉksÉªks/ KOK-siks; plural: coccyges or coccyxes), commonly referred to as the tailbone, is the final segment of the vertebral column in humans and apes, and certain other mammals such as horses. In animals with bony tails, it is known as tailhead or dock, in bird anatomy as tailfan. It comprises three to five separate or fused coccygeal vertebrae below the sacrum, attached to the sacrum by a fibrocartilaginous joint, the sacrococcygeal symphysis, which permits limited movement between the sacrum and the coccyx.