A Honor Society of Nursing (STTI) answered. Tethered spinal cord syndrome is a neurological disorder caused by tissue attachments that limit the movement of the spinal cord within the spinal column. These attachments cause an abnormal stretching of the spinal cord.The course of the disorder is progressive. Honor Society of Nursing (STTI) answered. Tethered spinal cord syndrome is a neurological disorder caused by tissue attachments that limit the movement of the spinal cord within the spinal column. These attachments cause an abnormal stretching of the spinal cord. The course of the disorder is progressive.
Translocation Down syndrome: This type accounts for a small percentage of people with Down syndrome (about 3%). 2 This occurs when an extra part or a whole extra chromosome 21 is present, but it is attached or âtrans-locatedâ to a different chromosome rather than being a separate chromosome 21.
the attachment of a fragment of one chromosome to a nonhomologous chromosome. Translocation of a portion of one chromosome to another chromosome. Redrawn from Damjanov, 2000. reciprocal translocation the mutual exchange of fragments between two broken chromosomes, one part of one uniting with part of the other.he attachment of a fragment of one chromosome to a nonhomologous chromosome. See also chromosomal abnormality. The translocations recorded include adjacent section, alternate segregation, centric fusion, distal segment, eye color, heterozygote, interstitial segment, reciprocal, Robertsonian. Robertsonian translocation.