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  • Chick embryo spinal nerves
  • Spinal column, femur, joints, and nerves. Engraving, 18th century.
  • An arrangement of the spinal nerves. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543.
  • Nerves from the spinal marrow of cows and sheep, cut out and examined with the aid of the microscope
  • Dissection of the human trunk, showing the dorsal rami of spinal nerves. Lithograph by Léveillé, after N.H Jacob, 1831/1854.
  • Dissection of a horse, showing the spinal column, head and hind legs, and associated nerves. Coloured engraving by J. Pass after Harguinier, 1805.
  • A nude figure seen from the back with a spinal column of eighteen vertebrae exposed, with the nerves that radiate from it visible. Process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
  • Brown-Sequard, illustrations of roots of a spinal nerve
  • Nerve cell from anterior horn of spinal cord grey matter
  • Neurons or nerve cells are the core components of the brain and spinal cord of the central nervous system (CNS), and of the ganglia of the peripheral nervous system (PNS) controlling many motor and sensory functions of the body.
  • Neurons or nerve cells are the core components of the brain and spinal cord of the central nervous system (CNS), and of the ganglia of the peripheral nervous system (PNS) controlling many motor and sensory functions of the body.
  • Portal vein (fig. 2); spinal cord (figs 3-4) after Huber. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.
  • Dorsal Root Ganglion Serial Sections
  • A manual of diseases of the nervous system / by Sir W.R. Gowers.
  • A manual of diseases of the nervous system / by W.R. Gowers.
  • Dissection of a horse, showing the nervous system. Coloured engraving by J. Pass after Harguinier, 1805.
  • Brain within the skull, feline
  • Spinal cord, feline
  • Spinal cord (ventral view), feline
  • Crushed cervical nerve roots, disc replacement.
  • Left side, severe sciatica.
  • Left side, severe sciatica.
  • Dorsal root ganglion
  • MRI scan; spinal cord tumour (neurofibroma)
  • Mouse neuromuscular junctions
  • Brain and nerve cells in their healthy state and after injury by alcohol. Colour lithograph, ca. 1920.
  • Neuromuscular junctions and blood vessels
  • Papanicolaou stained smear of a clival chordoma, microscopy. Chordomas are cancers formed of cells which resemble those of the notochord (spine) of a developing foetus. Although they can present anywhere within the spine and skull, the majority grow in the sacral region of the spine, corresponding to the lower back. This image shows a Papanicolaou (Pap) stained smear obtained from a needle biopsy of a chordoma in the clivus, a part of the cranium at the base of the skull.
  • Papanicolaou stained smear of a C2 vertebral chordomal mass, microscopy. Chordomas are cancers formed of cells which resemble those of the notochord (spine) of a developing foetus. Although they can present anywhere within the spine and skull, the majority grow in the sacral region of the spine, corresponding to the lower back. This image shows a Papanicolaou (pap) stained smear obtained from a needle biopsy of a chordoma of the C2 vertebrae, located at the top of the neck just underneath the base of the skull.
  • Tabulae anatomicae / clarissimi Bartholomaei Eustachii ... ; praefatione, ac notis illustravit Joh. Maria Lancisius.