Chapter 11 The nervous systems and the eye/Fig 11.43.jpg

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The spinal cord above a transverse lesion. (A) Immediately above there is degeneration of the posterior columns and the spinocerebellar and the spinothalamic tracts. (B) Well above there is preservation of the cuneate tracts and there is less severe degeneration of the spinothalamic and spinocerebellar tracts.