Princeton's WordNet(1.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition: 1  cocoa, chocolate, hot chocolate, drinking chocolate(noun) a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot. 2  cocoa(noun) powder of ground roasted cacao beans with most of the fat removed.
Nerve and Muscles of the Respiratory System. When a spinal cord injury occurs, the lungs and the alveoli remain the same. However, just as the injury affects the nerves that control the muscles of the arms and legs, it also affects the nerves that activate the muscles used for breathing.
Your ability to control your limbs after spinal cord injury depends on two factors: the place of the injury along your spinal cord and the severity of injury to the spinal cord. The lowest part of your spinal cord that functions normally after injury is referred to as the neurological level of your injury. 1  Complete. If almost all feeling (sensory) and all ability to control movement (motor function) are lost below the spinal cord injury, your injury is called complete.  Incomplete.