GENERAL HISTOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The posterior horn is responsible for sensory processing. The anterior horn sends out motor signals to the skeletal muscles. The lateral horn, which is only found in the thoracic, upper lumbar, and sacral regions, is the central component of the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system.

Detailed explanation-2: -In transverse sections, the gray matter is conventionally divided into dorsal (posterior) lateral and ventral (anterior) “horns.” The neurons of the dorsal horns receive sensory information that enters the spinal cord via the dorsal roots of the spinal nerves.

Detailed explanation-3: -The anterior horn of spinal cord is part of the spinal gray matter which is situated ventral to the central canal. It is motor in function and is the place where motor information exits from the central nervous system through efferent neurons to reach out to the effector organs, including muscles and glands.