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Fifth cranial nerve
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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- Depression, major Depression, major: A disease that interferes with the ability to work, sleep, eat, and enjoy once pleasurable…
- Drug activity A measure of the physiological response a drug produces. A less active drug produces less response (and visa…
- Artery, ophthalmic The ophthalmic artery supplies blood to the eye and adjacent structures of face. It arises from the internal…
- Directives, advance Known also as advance medical directives, these are documents that pertain to treatment preferences and the…
- Immunodeficiency Inability to mount a normal immune response. Immunodeficiency can be due to a genetic disease or acquired as…
- Typhus, urban. of Malaya Murine typhus, an acute infectious disease with fever, headache, and rash, all quite similar to, but milder…
- Gray's Anatomy A book entitled 'Anatomy Descriptive and Surgical' by Henry Gray appeared in 1858. Little could Dr. Gray have…
- Anlage 1. In biology, whatever precedes something else. 2. In embryology, a precursor or forerunner or a more mature…
- Juxtaspinal Near the spinal column. The prefix 'juxta-' comes from the Latin preposition meaning near, nearby, close…
- Bp In genetics, base pair. In general medicine, blood pressure (but usually in capital letters as BP)
- Musical hallucinosis See: Musical hallucination