| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The pressure difference causes the spinal cord to distend or pull apart, creating a cavity called a syrinx, and squeezing fluid either from blood vessels and other tissues or CSF into the cavity. (See above a magnetic resonance imaging [MRI] scan of a cavalier's brain and spinal cord, with the arrow pointing to a syrinx [the elongated white area] within the spinal cord.)
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