Medications

Nerve, eleventh cranial: The eleventh cranial nerve is the accessory nerve. The twelve cranial nerves, the accessory nerve included, emerge from or enter the skull (the cranium) as opposed to the spinal nerves which emerge from the vertebral column....

Nerve, eighth cranial - Medical

Nerve, eighth cranial: The eighth cranial nerve is the vestibulocochlear nerve. The vestibulocochlear nerve is responsible for the sense of hearing and it is also pertinent to balance, to the body position sense. Problems with the vestibulocochl...

Tussi-12D S (carbetapentane-phenylephrine-pyrilamine susp)

Nerve, efferent - Medical

Nerve, efferent: A nerve that carries impulses away from the central nervous system (CNS). An efferent nerve is the opposite of an afferent nerves that carries impulses toward the CNS.Last Editorial Review: 4/27/2011 5:27:15 PM...

Nerve, afferent - Medical

Nerve, afferent: A nerve that carries impulses toward the central nervous system (CNS). The opposite of an afferent nerve is an efferent nerve that carries impulses away from the CNS.Last Editorial Review: 4/27/2011 5:27:15 PM...

Nerve, accessory - Medical

Nerve, accessory: See: Accessory nerve. Last Editorial Review: 1/3/2004 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 supplie...

Tussi-12D (carbetapentane-phenylephrine-pyrilamine tablet)

Nerve, abducent - Medical

Nerve, abducent: A small motor nerve that has one task: to supply a muscle called the lateral rectus muscle that moves the eye outward. Paralysis of the abducent nerve causes inward turning of the eye (internal strabismus) leading to double vision....

Nerve pathways, visual - Medical

Nerve pathways, visual: The optic nerves serving the eyes join behind the eyes just in front of the pituitary gland to form a cross-shaped structure called the optic chiasma. Within the optic chiasma some of the nerve fibers cross. The fibers from t...

Nerve palsy, laryngeal - Medical

Nerve palsy, laryngeal: Paralysis of the recurrent laryngeal nerve, a branch of the vagus nerve (a long and important nerve that originates in the brainstem and runs down to the colon). After the recurrent laryngeal nerve leaves the vagus nerve, it ...

Nerve growth factor - Medical

Nerve growth factor: Abbreviated NGF. A naturally occurring molecule in the body which stimulates the growth and differentiation of the sympathetic and certain sensory nerves. NGF is a protein that consists of 3 types of polypeptide chains -- alpha, ...

tryptophan-oral capsule, tablet

Nerve conduction velocity test - Medical

Nerve conduction velocity test: An electrical test used to detect nerve conditions. In the nerve conduction velocity (NCV) test, the nerve is electrically stimulated by one electrode while other electrodes detect the electrical impulse "down stre...

Nerve conduction study - Medical

Nerve conduction study: See: Nerve conduction velocity test.Last Editorial Review: 7/11/2004 Nerve conduction velocity test: An electrical test used to detect nerve conditions. In the nerve conduction velocity (NCV) test, the nerve is electric...

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Nerve compression - Medical

Nerve compression: "Pinching" a nerve by putting too much pressure on it. For example, the sciatic nerve may be painfully compressed by a ruptured disc in the lower spine causing sciatica. In nerve compression there is pressure on a nerve root...

Trusopt (DORZOLAMIDE OPHTH SOLN)

Nerve cell - Medical

Nerve cell: See: Neuron.Last Editorial Review: 4/27/2011 5:27:15 PM Neuron: A nerve cell that sends and receives electrical signals over long distances within the body. A neuron may send electrical output signals to muscle neurons (called motor neur...

Nerve block - Medical

Nerve block: A procedure in which an anesthetic agent is injected directly near a nerve to block pain. A nerve block is a form of regional anesthesia. Last Editorial Review: 11/24/2003...

Nerve - Medical

Nerve: A bundle of fibers that uses chemical and electrical signals to transmit sensory and motor information from one body part to another. See: Nervous system. Last Editorial Review: 4/27/2011 5:27:15 PM Sensory: Relating to sensation, to the...

Truphylline (aminophylline-rectal)

Neprilysin - Medical

Neprilysin: See: Metallomembrane endopeptidase. Last Editorial Review: 10/3/2004 Metallomembrane endopeptidase: (MME) A molecule that is also known as CALLA (common acute lymphocytic leukemia antigen), a cell surface marker for the mo...

Nephrotoxic - Medical

Nephrotoxic: Damaging or deleterious to the kidney. Literally, toxic to the kidney. The term was compounded in 1902 from nephro-, referring to the kidney + toxic. Last Editorial Review: 11/24/2003 Kidney: One of a pair of organs locate...

Trovan (alatrofloxacin-injection)

Nephrotomogram - Medical

Nephrotomogram: A series of special x-rays of the kidneys. The x-rays are taken from different angles. They show the kidneys clearly, without the shadows of the organs around them. Last Editorial Review: 4/27/2011 5:27:15 PM Kidney: One of a pair...

TROVAFLOXACIN-ORAL

Nephrotic syndrome, minimal change - Medical

Nephrotic syndrome, minimal change: See: Minimal change disease. Last Editorial Review: 8/24/2003 Minimal change disease: The most common form of the nephrotic syndrome, a kidney disorder that affects the structures called glomeruli which conta...

Nephrosis, lipoid - Medical

Nephrosis, lipoid: See: Minimal change disease. Last Editorial Review: 8/24/2003 Minimal change disease: The most common form of the nephrotic syndrome, a kidney disorder that affects the structures called glomeruli which contain small capillarie...

trovafloxacin mesylate

GENERIC NAME: trovafloxacin mesylate BRAND NAME: Trovan DRUG CLASS AND MECHANISM: Many common infections in humans are caused by single cell organisms, called bacteria. Bacteria can grow and multiply, infecting different parts of the body. M...

Nephrosis - Medical

Nephrosis: Non-inflammatory, non-neoplastic disease of the kidney. Nephrosis an be caused by kidney disease, or it may be a complication of another disorder, particularly diabetes. Diagnosis is by urine testing for the presence of protein, blo...