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Nerve, trigeminal
This nerve functions both as the chief nerve of sensation for the face and as the motor nerve controlling the muscles of mastication (chewing). Problems with the sensory part of the trigeminal nerve result in pain or loss of sensation in…
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- Strontium ranelate An agent consisting of two atoms of stable strontium and ranelic acid. Strontium ranelate stimulates the…
- Recreational water illness An illness that is spread by swallowing, breathing, or having contact with contaminated water from swimming…
- Mucolipidosis IV A type of mucolipidosis due to mutation in the gene encoding mucolipin-1. Most patients have developmental…
- Ketone body A chemicals that the body makes when there is not enough insulin in the blood and it must break down fat…
- Health care proxy A health care proxy is one form of advance medical directive. Advance medical directives pertain to treatment…
- Lateral ventricle >Lateral ventricles: The lateral ventricles are in the cerebral hemispheres, one in each hemisphere. Each…
- Syndrome, Behcet's See: Behcet's syndrome
- Filial 1. In genetics, the first generation that results from the crossing of two parental lines, as the filial…
- Impaired glucose tolerance A congenital malformation (a birth defect) in which the rectum is a blind alley (a cul-de-sac) and there is…
- Cor pulmonale Heart disease that results from abnormally high resistance to the passage of blood through the lungs; it…
- ITN Insecticide-treated bednet. 'Provision of insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) is universally accepted as an…