Sentence examples for sacral level from inspiring English sources

They are even more rare at the sacral level than those higher on the spine because of the stability of the bony pelvis [9, 10].

Seven of 11 MMC children who suffered fractures (64%) had thoracic, three (28%) lumbar, and one child (9%) sacral level of paralysis.

The frequency of low lumbar and sacral paralysis was nearly 40%, whereas only 14% of the patients who suffered a fracture demonstrated a low lumbar or sacral level of paralysis.

Acupuncture needles were inserted in the rectus abdominis (stomach) [29] and in the triceps surae muscles (spleen) [6] bilaterally, in somatic segments that correspond to the innervation of the ovaries (i.e., from spinal levels T10 to L2 and at the sacral level).

Paresthesias had ascended to the sacral level.

The MRI scans included sagittal and axial T2-weighted images (repetition time = 3000, echo time = 98 102) from the first lumbar through the first sacral level.

General visceral efferent fibres also arise from cell bodies located within the spinal cord, but they exit only at thoracic and upper lumbar levels or at sacral levels (more specifically, at levels T1 L2 and S2 S4).

The preganglionic neurons are located in specific cell groups (also called nuclei) in the brainstem or in the lateral horns of the spinal cord at sacral levels (segments S2 S4).

There are two types of sensory neurons: sympathetic neurons, which originate from dorsal-root ganglia found at the thoracic and lumbar levels; and parasympathetic neurons, which originate in the nodose ganglion of the vagus nerve or in dorsal-root ganglia at sacral levels S2 S4.

In P15 En1Cre; Cdx2-FlpO; R26ds-nlslacZ mice, we observed a caudal pattern of nlslacZ expression in V1 INs that spanned mid-cervical to sacral levels of the spinal cord.

At lumbosacral sacral levels (L5 S1 rodents, S2 S4 humans) a group of parasympathetic preganglionic neurons are sited in lamina VII in a region termed the sacral parasympathetic nucleus- see Fig.  1.