If a patient experiences numbness in the boundaries of a dermatome, it is suggestive of damage to

A.  the somatosensory cortex.
B.  the thalamus.
C.  one of the spinal funiculi.
D.  the anterior horn of grey matter in the spinal cord.
E.  a spinal nerve.


E

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