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Podcast: Healthy And Free Daily
Episode: Ascending and descending Tracts of the Spinal Cord
Description: "...within the spinal cord, there are several different tracts grossly they are divided into ascending and descending tracts on the cross-section of the spinal cord these tracks make up the white matter named because of the whitish color that the myelin around the axon gives the gray matter is located centrally comprising the ventral and dorsal horns the ascending pathways are responsible for transporting information from the body these are sensory tracts we will color these tracks in blue and starting from the posterior column also known as the dorsal column we have the fasciculus Q8 and fasciculus gracilis...