Tonight will be Mostly Clear with a low of 41. Tomorrow will start with sunshine but a cold front will bring isolated showers to the area, after a high near 60.
What is the thick column of nerve tissue that links the brain to the peripheral nervous system? The Spinal Cord is the thick column of nerve tissue that links the  brain to most of the nerves. Making the world better, one answer at a time.
a solid double strand of nerve fibers along the length of the body in elongate invertebrates, as earthworms and insects, connecting with a pair of nerve ganglia at each body segment. In specimens with the proboscis drawn in, the nerve cord is of course doubled back on itself. It lies ventral to the nerve cord, and shows no trace of segmentation. Neural groove: is that furrow in the primitive layer of the embryo in which the nerve cord is formed.