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Tissues > Connective Tissue > Bone and Bones > Spine > Spinal Canal
Musculoskeletal System > Skeleton > Bone and Bones > Spine > Spinal Canal

Preferred term

Spinal Canal  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Narrower concepts

Entry terms

  • Canal, Vertebral
  • Vertebral Canal
  • Vertebral Canals

Note

  • coordinate with specific vertebrae to locate level of spinal canal; "narrowing of the spinal canal" = SPINAL STENOSIS

Scope note

  • The cavity within the SPINAL COLUMN through which the SPINAL CORD passes.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013115

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