📘 Step 1 — Curriculum Coverage

This section outlines integrated curriculum components covered in this topic. 

🔹 Anatomy

• Shape, grooves, sulci and extension of spinal cord
  • Segments of spinal cord
  • Difference between white matter and grey matter of spinal cord
  • Meningeal covering of spinal cord
  • Blood supply of spinal cord
• Venous drainage of spinal cord
• Distribution of spinal cord grey matter into horns
  • Difference between anterior, lateral and posterior horns
  • Distribution of sensory and motor neurons within grey matter
  • Rexed laminae of spinal cord
  • Ascending tracts of spinal cord
  • Origin, pathway and termination of dorsal column–medial lemniscal system
  • Origin, pathway and termination of anterolateral spinothalamic tract
  • Descending tracts of spinal cord
  • Origin, pathway and termination of pyramidal tracts
  • Origin, pathway and termination of extrapyramidal tracts
  • Difference between pyramidal and extrapyramidal tracts

🔹 Embryology

• Development of alar plate and basal plate
  • Derivatives of alar and basal plates

🔹 Histology

• Light microscopic transverse section of spinal cord at cervical, thoracic, lumbar and sacral regions
  • Drawing and labeling of transverse section of spinal cord at different levels