An area of the spinal cord where many nerve fibers from peripheral pain receptors meet other ascending nerve fibers.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2003/glossary.shtml
(from the article `pain`) Pain impulses enter the spinal cord, where they synapse primarily on the dorsal horn neurons in the marginal zone and substantia gelatinosa of the ... ...or change the character of signals, while others play key roles in transmission and in patterned reflexes. The gray matter forms three pairs of ... [2 rela...
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/d/68
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