Your body has 30 dermatomes, one less than the number of spinal nerves. This is because the C1 spinal nerve typically doesn’t have a sensory root. As a result, dermatomes begin with spinal nerve C2.

Dermatomes are areas of skin that send signals to the brain through the spinal nerves. The dermatome system covers the entire body from the hands and fingers to the feet and toes.

Medically reviewed by Lauren Schlanger, MD A dermatome is an area of skin that gets its sensation from a specific spinal nerve root. Spinal nerves exist in 31 pairs, one on each side of the spine.

2000-09-18 04:00:00 PDT San Francisco, CA, USA-- Early in my career as a physician I was visited by Ms. Reza Bulushi, a 55 year-old Yemeni Arab widow who had suffered with severe pelvic pain for ...

From a sensory point of view, our skin is divided up into segments, like the body of an earthworm. Each segment is called a dermatome, and is innervated by a single pair of spinal nerves.

EXPERIENCE with many skin-grafting operations in the repair of burn wounds of all sizes has shown that the Padgett dermatome technic1 gives extremely satisfactory results but is time-consuming. To ...