Covering the spinal cord and its protective layers is the vertebral column, or the spinal bones. These bones start at the base of the skull and extend down to the sacrum, a bone that fits into the ...

Spinal Cord vs. Vertebral Column. The spinal cord is often confused with the vertebral column, but the two are distinct. While the spinal cord is a soft layer of tissue consisting of nerves and ...

Researchers can even create block preparations, each of which contains multiple spinal cord sections, ... the brain acts as a weight and helps draw the spinal cord out of the vertebral column.