She died of sepsis from a ruptured intestine. ( 1 CNN)Actress Patty Duke died Tuesday as a result of sepsis from a ruptured intestine, according to Mitchell K. Stubbs & Associates, the agency that represented her. She was 69.
How Your Brain Works. The basic lower brain consists of the spinal cord, brain stem and diencephalon (the cerebellum and cortex are also present, but will be discussed in later sections). In turn, the brain stem comprises the medulla, pons, midbrain, hypothalamus and thalamus [source: Health Pages].
The definition of the lower motor neuron is the nerve cell body (soma), the peripheral axon and the nerve terminal that directly innervates the skeletal muscle. These neurons, also called Î±-motoneurons are found throughout the spinal cord in the ventral horn gray matter from C1-Cy (coccygeal) levels.