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

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


Answer: E

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