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  2. Anterior spinal artery - Wikipedia

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    In human anatomy, the anterior spinal artery is the artery that supplies the anterior portion of the spinal cord.It arises from branches of the vertebral arteries and courses along the anterior aspect of the spinal cord.

  3. Anterior spinal artery syndrome - Wikipedia

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    The anterior portion of the spinal cord is supplied by the anterior spinal artery. It begins at the foramen magnum where branches of the two vertebral arteries exit, merge, and descend along the anterior spinal cord. As the anterior spinal artery proceeds inferiorly, it receives branches originating mostly from the aorta. [1]

  4. Spinal cord - Wikipedia

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    Sectional organization of spinal cord. The spinal cord is the main pathway for information connecting the brain and peripheral nervous system. [3] [4] Much shorter than its protecting spinal column, the human spinal cord originates in the brainstem, passes through the foramen magnum, and continues through to the conus medullaris near the second lumbar vertebra before terminating in a fibrous ...

  5. List of anatomy mnemonics - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of human anatomy mnemonics, categorized and alphabetized.For mnemonics in other medical specialties, see this list of medical mnemonics.Mnemonics serve as a systematic method for remembrance of functionally or systemically related items within regions of larger fields of study, such as those found in the study of specific areas of human anatomy, such as the bones in the hand ...

  6. Lumbar arteries - Wikipedia

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    A fifth pair, small in size, is occasionally present: they arise from the middle sacral artery. They run lateralward and backward on the bodies of the lumbar vertebrae, behind the sympathetic trunk, to the intervals between the adjacent transverse processes, and are then continued into the abdominal wall.

  7. Vertebral artery - Wikipedia

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    At each cervical level, the vertebral artery sends branches to the surrounding musculature via the anterior spinal arteries. Segments of vertebral artery anterior projection. The vertebral artery may be divided into four parts: The first (preforaminal) part runs upward and backward between the anterior scalene and the longus colli muscles.

  8. Spinal arteries - Wikipedia

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    The spinal arteries are the: Anterior spinal artery; Posterior spinal artery This page was last edited on 17 ...

  9. List of foramina of the human body - Wikipedia

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    anterior cranial fossa: foramen cecum: 1: emissary veins to superior sagittal sinus from the upper part of the nose [3] ethmoid: anterior cranial fossa (osama) foramina of cribriform plate ~20-olfactory nerve bundles (I) ethmoid: anterior cranial fossa: anterior ethmoidal foramen: 2: anterior ethmoidal artery anterior ethmoidal vein: anterior ...