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Cranial nerve IX
The ninth cranial nerve is the glossopharyngeal nerve. The 12 cranial nerves, the glossopharyngeal 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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- Chronicity Characterized by long duration. The state of being chronic
- American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) >To provide responsible advocacy for and education of patients and the public in all health-related matters…
- Syndrome, Zollinger-Ellison A rare disorder caused by a tumor called a gastrinoma, most often occurring in the pancreas. The tumor…
- Bubonic plague The most common form of the plague, named for the characteristic buboes -- buboes are enlarged lymph nodes…
- Adapter protein A protein acts as a connecting molecule. An adapter protein is critical to intermolecular interactions and…
- Smallpox bioterrorism The misuse of smallpox as an agent of bioterrorism. Smallpox was eradicated in 1977. Routine vaccinations…
- Ricker syndrome A disease of infants and children that disturbs normal bone formation (ossification). Rickets is a failure to…
- Synthesis Putting together different entities to make a whole which is new and different. In biochemistry, synthesis…