Spinal cord cord ends around the L1/L2 vertebral level, forming a structure known as the conus medullaris. Although the spinal cord cell bodies end around the L1/L2 vertebral level, the spinal nerves for each segment exit at the level of the corresponding vertebra. For the nerves of the lower spinal cord, this means that they exit the vertebral column much lower (more caudally) than their roots. As these nerves travel from their respective roots to their point of exit from the vertebral column, the nerves of the lower spinal segments form a bundle called the cauda equina. There are two regions where
Gina (given name) below rank 1,000 in 2009. Gina (given name) Gina (occasional variants "Geena, Gena, Jeana, Jeanna") is a feminine given name, in origin a hypocoristic form of names ending in "-gina" (by metanalysis of the latinate feminine suffix "-ina"), such as Luigina, Regina or Georgina, also of Virginia or Eugenia. The short form was popularized in the 1950s by the actress Gina Lollobrigida (b. 1927), whose birth name is Luigina. Lollobrigida became famous in 1953, from which year popularity of the given name "Gina" in the United State rose steeply, reaching a peak at rank 54 in 1967. Since the 1970s,