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Facial nerve
The facial nerve is the seventh cranial nerve. It is a mixed nerve that has fibers both going out and coming in (both efferent and afferent fibers). It supplies the muscles of facial expression. Paralysis of the facial nerve causes a…
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Show more- Leukemia, acute nonlymphocytic Leukemia, acute nonlymphocytic: Abbreviated ANLL. More commonly called acute myeloid leukemia (AML). A…
- Black eye Bruising of the eyelid and/or under- eye area as a result of trauma to the eye. Colloquially called a shiner
- Duct A passage or a tube with well-defined walls suitable for the conveyance of air or liquids, as the bile duct…
- Hounsfield 1. Godfrey Hounsfield, a key contributor to the creation of the CAT scanner.2. The unit measuring the…
- Ultrasound, Doppler See: Doppler ultrasound
- House Hospital. As in house officer, house staff, and house surgeon
- M. leprae Mycobacterium leprae
- Melanoma, eye See: Intraocular melanoma
- Vein, saphenous The saphenous veins -- there are two, the great and the small saphenous veins -- are the principal veins that…
- Right hepatic duct The duct that drains bile from the right half of the liver and joins the left hepatic duct to form the common…
- Musicotherapy See: Music therapy
- Stockholm syndrome Sudden collapse into unconsciousness due to a disorder of heart rhythm in which there is a slow or absent…