If You Are Injured and Your Legs Are Paralyzed, What

question 34

Multiple Choice

If you are injured and your legs are paralyzed, what part of you was probably damaged?

• A) The frontal lobe of the brain.
• B) The parietal lobe of the brain.
• C) The sympathetic nervous system.
• D) The spinal cord below the arms.
• E) Somewhere along the spinal cord.

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