As different types of sensory signals enter the spinal cord, from the peripheral nerves, they take different routes on their way up to the brain.

Translated from the Greek, this word (“spondyl” + “osis”) should really refer to any disease process affecting one of the vertebrae, or the spinal column

A rare condition in which cerebrospinal fluid leaks, spontaneously, from the theca which lines the spinal canal. The fluid that drains out of the spine

Cerebrospinal fluid forms, for the most part, within the ventricles of the brain. From there it flows out, at the base of the brain, and

A commonly-used term for subarachnoid channels, reflecting the fact that, in dissection room preparations, the volume between the dura and the brain or spinal cord

Something is subjective when it is felt by the individual. Another person cannot perceive whatever sensation it is. All symptoms are subjective. One person cannot

A major venous channel, running down the centre of the top of the head. It drains a significant proportion of the total blood volume flowing

A symptom is anything of which a patient complains with respect to his or her own body. It may also be obvious to an observer,

A syndrome is a clearly recognisable combination of symptoms and signs, which indicate that one or more disease process is active, or has been active

On rare occasions a syringomyelia cavity may enlarge in an upward direction, from the cervical spinal cord, into the brain stem. The word bulb refers