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Exam questionKROK 1Medicine ยท 2014

As a result of an injury, the integrity of the anterior spinal cord root was broken. Specify the neurons and their processes that had been damaged:

Answer options

  1. Axons of sensory neurons
  2. Axons of motor neurons
  3. Dendrites of sensory neurons
  4. Motor neuron dendrites
  5. Dendrites of association neurons
Correct answer

Axons of motor neurons

Explanation

The anterior root of the spinal cord is made up of the axons of motor neurons (posterior is sensory neurons) so damage of the anterior root leads to damage of the axons of motor neurons.

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