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The vital and highly delicate neural structure of the spinal cord is heavily protected from external physical injury by

As explicitly described in Chapter 6 of the NCERT Class 10 textbook, the highly delicate organs of the central nervous system require incredibly robust protection to function without any physical disruption. The human brain, being a phenomenally complex organ responsible for a multitude of vital tasks, sits securely inside a hard, bony box generally called the cranium or skull. To provide further safeguarding, inside this bony structure, the brain is safely enclosed in a fluid-filled balloon. This fluid is known as the cerebrospinal fluid, which serves as a highly effective shock absorber agai

Ref: NCERT Class 10 Science chapter 6 control and coordination