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Nerve, fifth cranial
The fifth cranial nerve is the trigeminal nerve. The trigeminal nerve is quite complex. It functions both as the chief nerve of sensation for the face and the motor nerve controlling the muscles of mastication (chewing). Problems with the…
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- Hydrogen cyanide See: Cyanide
- Aspirin A good example of a tradename that entered into the language, Aspirin was once the Bayer trademark for…
- Aortic Pertaining to the aorta, the largest artery in the body. 'Aortic' is in common usage as, for example, in an…
- Myotonic dystrophy 2 See: Myotonic dystrophy type 2
- Therapy, psychodynamic See: Psychodynamic therapy
- Syndrome, Osler-Rendu-Weber See: Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
- Breast fibroadenoma A common benign (not malignant) tumor of the breast. Usually called simply a fibroadenoma. For more…
- Pulmonary valve One of the four valves in the heart, the pulmonary valve stands at the opening from the right ventricle in…
- Slow-wave sleep Sleep: Stage 3 and 4 non-rapid eye movement (non-REM) sleep. Slow-wave sleep is characterized by brain wave…
- Autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome (ALPS) A disease caused by failure of lymphocytes to die once they have finished doing their job. As a result…