We Have a Horse's Tail in our Back?

Picture courtesy www.spinalogy.com.

"The spinal cord is shorter than the vertebral column, which causes nerves that innervate the lower limbs to bundle together as they travel down through the vertebral column to leave at the appropriate level. It is so named as it resemble a horse’s tail."

by Lucinda hampton, and Kim Jackson  

• Physiopedia  

• Cauda Equina