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Grey commissure

grey matter strip around the spinal cord

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 10, 2024
Entity authorityQ5598254 ↗
Source-derived summary

The grey commissure is a thin strip of grey matter that surrounds the central canal of the spinal cord and, along with the anterior white commissure, connects the two halves of the cord. It comprises lamina X in the Rexed classification.

External links

Blok BF, van Maarseveen JT, Holstege G (June 1998). "Electrical stimulation of the sacral dorsal gray commissure evokes relaxation of the external urethral sphincter in the cat". Neurosci. Lett. 249 (1): 68–70. doi:10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00382-6. PMID 9672391.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Grey commissure” is grey matter strip around the spinal cord. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Grey, commissure and grey, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998, 1016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Grey, commissure and grey is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Grey commissure” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.