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The spinal cord consists of four regions and ________ pairs of spinal nerves.

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Answer: 31 pairs of spinal nerves

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In the nervous system, bundles of fibres are called nerves.

The spinal nerve carries motor, sensory, and autonomic signals/information from the spinal cord to the brain and other part of the body.

The human body spinal cord consists of 4 regions, and 31 pairs of spinal nerves. The 31 pairs of spinal nerve are distributed one on each side of the vertebral column within the four regions of the spinal cord. The four regions of the spine are the cervical, thoracic, lumbar and sacral regions.

Answer is 31 pairs.

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