Medical Definition Spinal Cord Compression

Spinal Cord Compression | Johns Hopkins Medicine

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What is spinal cord compression? Spinal cord compression is caused by any condition that puts pressure on your spinal cord. Your spinal cord is the bundle of nerves that carries messages back and forth from your brain to your muscles and other soft tissues. As your …

Spinal Cord Compression: Definition and Patient Education

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Spinal Cord Compression - Neurologic Disorders - MSD …

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Spinal cord compression is usually secondary to an extrinsic mass. Manifestations may include back and radicular pain (early) and segmental sensory and/or motor deficits, altered reflexes, extensor plantar …

Spinal Cord Compression - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf

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Spinal cord compression can occur from a wide range of underlying conditions. This article will focus on atraumatic causes of …

Compression of the Spinal Cord - Merck Manuals …

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The spinal cord may be compressed by the following: Bone: If the vertebrae are broken (fractured), are dislocated, or grow abnormally (as occurs in cervical spondylosis ), they may compress the spinal cord. …

Myelopathy | Johns Hopkins Medicine

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When any portion of the spinal cord becomes compressed or constricted, the resulting symptoms are known as myelopathy. Myelopathy Versus Myopathy. Myopathy is a muscular disorder and should not be confused …

Spinal cord injury - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic

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A spinal cord injury — damage to any part of the spinal cord or nerves at the end of the spinal canal (cauda equina) — often causes permanent changes in strength, sensation and other body …

Spinal Cord Injury | National Institute of Neurological …

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The spinal cord is a soft, cylindrical column of tightly bundled nerve cells (neurons and glia), nerve fibers that transmit nerve signals (called axons), and blood …

Medical Definition of Spinal cord compression

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Spinal cord compression: The act of exerting an abnormal amount of pressure on the spinal cord. Compression of the spinal cord may, for instance, be due …

Spinal cord compression | definition of Spinal

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compression [ kom-presh´un] 1. the act of pressing upon or together; the state of being pressed together. 2. in embryology, the shortening or omission of certain developmental …