Talk:Spinal cord

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Contents 1 Differences between vertebrae 2 Spinal Cord Picture 3 Humans only? 4 Sonic the Hedgehog? 5 Editing

[edit] Differences between vertebrae

There are several distinguishing features which can enable any anatomist to distinguish between a vertebrae from one section of the body to another. The distinctions are not artificial. gfd Lumbar vertebrae havev large bodies, no ribs attached, and large transverse processes.

Hope this helps -- DMC MS-1

[edit] Spinal Cord Picture

It may sound like a somewhat odd request, but do you think we could find a picture of an intact spinal cord? It's like looking at a picture of a mashed up brain.- Moshe Constantine Hassan Al-Silverburg | Talk 05:43, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Humans only?

I am not a biologist, but I have a feeling that some of the items in the article only apply to humans. It should be clear at each point in the article which organisms are under discussion. --ARP

Agreed. delldot talk 18:44, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

i just want to know more about spinal cord, because my husband just this lately we had a check up and found out tht his T2 and T12 had a slighthly dislocate. can you help me advice? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.131.139.115 (talk) 06:07, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sonic the Hedgehog?

In this edit, someone added a lot of really good sounding text, but they say the factor SHH is called Sonic Hedgehog. No way, right? What is it really called? Could someone who knows about this stuff look through the history and review all of this person's contributions? Failing that, should we remove them? If I'm wrong and it's actually called that, a thousand pardons and please revert me because I commented it out in the article. delldot talk 18:44, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

My bad! The person who made the additions confirmed that that's what it's really called, and it's been reverted. Should have my homework better. delldot talk 19:44, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Editing

This article needs formatting and clean up. The content is good, but some of the paragraphs are too long, and hard to read, and the section on spinal cord injury needs its own article. The text should be in the present tense rather than the future, for readability.Bwthemoose 13:40, 18 October 2007 (UTC)