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myelocystomeningocele

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myelocystomeningocele /my·elo·cys·to·me·nin·go·cele/ (-mĕ-ning´go-sēl) myelomeningocele.
myelocystomeningocele
[mī′əlōsis′tōməning′gōsēl]
Etymology: Gk, myelos + kystis + menix, membrane, kele, hernia

myelomeningocele [mi″ĕ-lo-mĕ-ning´go-sēl]
hernial protrusion of the spinal cord and its meninges through a defect in the vertebral arch (spina bifida); see also neural tube defect. Called also meningomyelocele.
Child with a large thoraco-lumbar myelomeningocele consisting of protruding spinal cord covered by meninges. From Mueller and Young, 2001.

myelocystomeningocele
protrusion of cystic spinal cord and meninges through a defect in the vertebral column.


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