- spinal cord, medulla spinalis - a major part of the central nervous system which conducts sensory and motor nerve impulses to and from the brain; a long tube-like structure extending from the base of the brain through the vertebral canal to the upper lumbar region
--1 is a kind of neural structure; funiculus
--1 is a part of central nervous system, CNS, systema nervosum centrale
--1 has parts:spinal vein, vena spinalis; Golgi's cell, Golgi cell; spinal fluid, cerebrospinal fluid