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Nerves, cranial
Nerves that emerge from or enter the skull (the cranium), as opposed to the spinal nerves which emerge from the vertebral column. Cranial nerves come directly from the brain through the skull. There are 12 cranial nerves each of which is…
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- Hapten In immunology, a molecule that is incapable, alone, of causing the production of antibodies but which can do…
- Annotation, genome The process of identifying the locations and the coding regions of genes in a genome and determining what…
- Sociopathic personality disorder See: Antisocial personality disorder
- Neonatology The art and science of caring medically for the newborn.
- Aphasia, amnesic See Anomia
- Medicine, nuclear See: Nuclear medicine
- Syndrome, Ricker See: Myotonic dystrophy type 2
- Adrenoleukodystrophy A rare genetic (inherited) disorder characterized by the breakdown or loss of the myelin sheath surrounding…
- Love pearls Street name for alpha-ethyltryptamine
- Reduviid bug A winged insect. Reduviids include kissing bugs which transmit Chagas disease. See: Chagas disease
- Cochlear Pertaining to the cochlea, the organ of hearing