Lumbar enlargement

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Lumbar enlargement
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Diagrams of the medulla spinalis. (Cervical enlargement labeled at center right.)
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Latinintumescentia lumbosacralis
TA98A14.1.02.003
TA26051
FMA74895
Anatomical terminology

The lumbar enlargement (or lumbosacral enlargement) is a widened area of the spinal cord that gives attachment to the nerves which supply the lower limbs.

It commences about the level of T11 and ends at L2, and reaches its maximum circumference, of about 33 mm. Inferior to the lumbar enlargement is the conus medullaris.[1]

An analogous region for the upper limbs exists at the cervical enlargement.

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Public domain This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 752 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-10-08. Retrieved 2014-08-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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