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Cranial nerve XII
The twelfth cranial nerve is the hypoglossal nerve. The twelve cranial nerves, the hypoglossal nerve included, emerge from or enter the skull (the cranium), as opposed to the spinal nerves which emerge from the vertebral column. The…
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- Syndrome, Johnson-Stevens See: Stevens-Johnson syndrome.
- Juxtaposition The prefix 'juxta-' comes from the Latin preposition meaning near, nearby, close. Juxtaposition is thus the…
- Ablation, endometrial Removal of the lining of the womb. Removing the uterine lining decreases menstrual flow or stops it…
- Corpse A dead body. The term corpse is more often used in in mystery stories than in medicine which, for obscure…
- V. cholerae genome See: Cholera genome
- Anaplastology The art and science of restoring a malformed or absent part of the human body through artificial means. An…
- Annotation, genome The process of identifying the locations and the coding regions of genes in a genome and determining what…
- Anophthalmia Absence of the eye, as a result of a congenital malformation (birth defect) of the globe. Anophthalmia…
- Hypothalamus The area of the brain that controls body temperature, hunger, and thirst