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Accessory nerve
The eleventh cranial nerve, which emerges from the skull and receives an additional (accessory) root from the upper part of the spinal cord. It supplies the sternocleidomastoid and trapezius muscles. The sternocleidomastoid muscle is in…
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- Dorothy Hodgkin See: Hodgkin, Dorothy
- Fibrillin 1 See: FBN1
- Fungicidal Capable of killing fungi
- Uniparous 1) Having produced only one offspring. Also called primiparous. 2) Producing only one offspring at a time…
- Tendonopathy, patellar See: Patellar tendonitis
- Angioedema Like hives but affects deeper skin layer.
- Exercise treadmill test A test (sometimes simply called a treadmill test or exercise test) in which a continuous electrocardiogram…
- Tunica albuginea of the testis The layer of dense whitish inelastic tissue that surrounds the testis
- Child abuse, psychological Child abuse, psychological: Also known as emotional child abuse, this is the third most frequently reported…
- Goldring, Sidney Polish-born American neurosurgeon who pioneered the surgical treatment of epilepsy. Beginning in the 1970s…
- ADE Adverse drug event. See: Adverse reaction..