Anatom3DAnterior horn of spinal cord
Cornu anterius medullae spinalis · Přední roh míchy
Nervous system
Looks like
The front wings of the butterfly-shaped grey matter of the spinal cord, largest at the neck and lower back.
What it does
Holds the motor nerve cells that fire the skeletal muscles.
Keeping it well
ALS, spinal muscular atrophy and polio kill these cells. Weakness with muscle wasting and twitching needs a neurologist.
Related conditions
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- B12 & folate deficiency
- Bone metastases and spinal cord compression
- Botulism
- Chiari malformation and syringomyelia
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Fibromyalgia
- Friedreich's ataxia
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Lyme disease
- Multiple sclerosis
- Myasthenia gravis
- Neck pain and cervical spondylosis
- Neurogenic bladder
- Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Poliomyelitis
- Rabies
- Restless legs syndrome
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Spina bifida & neural tube defects
- Spinal cord injury
- Spinal muscular atrophy
- Tetanus
- Tick-borne encephalitis
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies