In this condition, the prenatal spinal deformities result in only the meninges, and not the spinal nerves, slipping into the gaps between the deformed vertebrae.
There are 31 pairs of nerves originating from the spinal cord called spinal nerves; there are 8 cervical, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar, 5 sacral and 1 coccygeal.
Since the spinal nerves are undamaged, people with this form of the disorder are often asymptomatic, and the condition is usually only found accidently later in life.
PNS consists of total 43 pairs of nerve, among which 12 originate in brain, named as cranial nerves and 31 originate from spinal cord, hence called as spinal nerves.
Some unique symptoms are that the pain of osteoid osteoma typically gets worse at night, while osteochondromas and osteoblastomas sometimes press against spinal nerves, causing numbness and limb weakness.
Transverse means extending completely across something, in this case, it refers to going across the spinal cord, and myelitis means inflammation of myelin, which is the fatty substance surrounding nerves.
These are grouped into 8 pairs of cervical nerves, 12 pairs of thoracic nerves, 5 pairs of lumbar nerves, 5 pairs of sacral nerves and 1 pair of coccygeal nerves.
The Peripheral Nervous System. The peripheral nervous system includes 12 cranial nerves and 31 pairs of spinal nerves. It can be subdivided into the somatic and autonomic nervous systems.