The neck supports the weight of the head and protects the nerves that carry sensory and motor information from the brain down to the rest of the body.

In addition, five major nerves run from the nerve ring down length of the body beneath each of the ambulacral areas.

* Just a dissipated creep who wears a Rolex on his wrist / On her nerves, too much cologne, and down her power to resist. Did she turn down the wrong hallway, his advances, or the sheet?

Tetrodotoxin ( TTX ) is a potent neurotoxin that shuts down electrical signaling in nerves by binding to the pores of sodium channel proteins in nerve cell membranes.

When neurons in the DRG fire, impulses travel down the phrenic and intercostal nerves to stimulate the diaphragm and external intercostal muscles.

In January 1968, after extensive testing, she informed her staff ( but not the public ) that she had a cancerous pelvic tumor which was pressing on the nerves of her back down through her right hip.

Ivanchuk has something of a reputation for being let down by his nerves, and this may have been another instance of that.

At the time, they both put it down to nerves ; she was due to have an operation to increase the couple's chances of having another child.

Richard Martin, an Irish MP, in introducing his famous bill banning animal cruelty in the United Kingdom, described Magendie's public dissection of a greyhound, in which the beast was nailed down ear and paw, half the nerves of its face dissected then left overnight for further dissection, calling Magendie a " disgrace to Society.

Upon reorientation of the head relative to gravity, the cupula is weighted down by the dense particles thereby inducing an immediate and maintained excitation of semicircular canal afferent nerves.

After the round Scott said that his finish was down to finding some bad positions on the course, rather than nerves.

Above, it lies upon the rectus capitis lateralis, behind the internal carotid artery and the nerves passing through the jugular foramen ; lower down, the vein and artery lie upon the same plane, the glossopharyngeal and hypoglossal nerves passing forward between them ; the vagus descends between and behind the vein and the artery in the same sheath ( the carotid sheath ), and the accessory runs obliquely backward, superficial or deep to the vein.

Apparently, as Walker was making the transition from catcher to relief pitching, and fighting nerves, Walker would take a shot of Wild Turkey ( bourbon ) whiskey before jogging down to the bullpen.

There are side effects of this complex surgery, including partial shut down of the digestive system ( in response to removal of the piece of intestine ), incontinence, and the loss of the nerves that signal a full bladder.

With the added pressure on top of the usual nerves, Lin watered down her routine and failed to medal during the uneven bars final.

However, the way in which the bone was laid down makes it possible to examine the imprints of nerves and other soft tissues.

Palmar digital nerve block-The palmar digital nerves ( formerly known as the posterior digital nerves ) run down the back of the pastern, one on each side of the deep flexor tendon.

* Tingling ' whiteness ' or numbness in the fingers ( blood vessels and nerves affected ): This may not be noticeable at the end of a working day, and in mild cases may affect only the tips of the fingers.

Aconite first stimulates and later paralyses / numbs the nerves to the sensations of pain, touch, and temperature if applied to the skin or to a mucous membrane ; the initial tingling therefore gives place to a long-continued anaesthetic action.

The high pH value resulting from hyperventilation also reduces the level of available calcium ( hypocalcemia ), which affects the nerves and muscles, causing constriction of blood vessels and tingling.

Medical staff will recognise that panic attacks and hyperventilation cause hypocalcaemia and irritable, hypersensitive nerves with muscle cramping and tingling sensations.

This impingement can cause pain in both upper and lower limbs and a numbness or tingling sensations in the hands and feet because the nerves are supplying sensation to their dermatomes.

These ribs are usually small, but may occasionally compress blood vessels ( such as the subclavian artery ) or nerves in the brachial plexus, causing ischemic muscle pain, numbness, tingling, and weakness in the upper limb.

Taub had been cutting sensory ganglia that supplied nerves to the monkeys ' fingers, hands, arms, and legs — a process called " deafferentation "— so that the monkeys could not feel them ; some of the monkeys had had their entire spinal columns deafferented.

Edward Taub, a psychologist, was cutting sensory ganglia that supplied nerves to the fingers, hands, arms, and legs of 17 macaque monkeys – a process known as " deafferentation " – so that the monkeys could not feel them.

Rules body parts including the neck, throat, thyroid gland, larynx, chin, lower jaw, ears, tongue, vocal chords, jugular vein, tonsils, hands, fingers, arms, shoulders, upper ribs, lungs, bronchial tracts, trachea, thymus gland, nerves, and nervous system.

Rules body parts including the hands, fingers, arms, shoulders, upper ribs, lungs, bronchial tracts, trachea, thymus gland, nerves, nervous system, breast, breastbone, stomach, digestive system, lower ribs, womb, and pancreas.

Rules body parts including the head, brain, eyes, face, muscles, neck, throat, thyroid gland, larynx, chin, lower, jaw, ears, tongue, vocal chords, jugular vein, tonsils, hands, fingers, arms, shoulders, upper ribs, lungs, bronchial tracts, trachea, thymus gland, nerves, nervous system, breast, breastbone, stomach, digestive system, lower ribs, womb, pancreas, heart, upper back, spine, spleen, the aorta, sympathetic nervous system, the lower digestive tract, lower back ( lumbar region ), kidneys, adrenal glands, genitals, bladder, cervix, urinary tract, prostate gland, liver, hips, thighs, pelvis, femur, the bones ( skeletal structure ), joints, knees, teeth, circulatory system, ankles, Achilles heel, calves, shins, the feet, and the immune system.

* Numbness in the fingers and arms ( related to the cervical musculature and nerves, not to TMD )

* Tumors of the spine, spinal cord and peripheral nerves

In the brain and spine, the autonomous " repair nerves ," which can expand the blood vessels, connect with compression and pain nerves.

This damage impairs the ability of some nerve receptors in the spine to properly receive gamma amino butyric acid, leading to hypertonia in the muscles signaled by those damaged nerves.

In the case of spastic diplegia there is also a permanent neurosurgical treatment for spasticity, selective dorsal rhizotomy, that directly targets nerves in the spine that cause the spasticity, and destroys them, so that the spasticity cannot be activated at all.

Back pain is pain felt in the back that usually originates from the muscles, nerves, bones, joints or other structures in the spine.

The spine is a complex interconnecting network of nerves, joints, muscles, tendons and ligaments, and all are capable of producing pain.

Large nerves that originate in the spine and go to the legs and arms can make pain radiate to the extremities.

Nerve tissue ( as in the brain, spine cord that is boney and straight and peripheral nerves that branch throughout the body ) are all made up of specialized nerve cells called neurons.

Generally speaking, the ectoderm differentiates to form the nervous system ( spine, peripheral nerves and brain ), tooth enamel and the epidermis ( the outer part of integument ).

Within the vertebral column ( spine ) of vertebrates, including the human spine, each bone has an opening at both its top and bottom to allow nerves, arteries, veins, etc.

Damage to adjacent structures such as nerves or vessels, spinal cord and nerve roots ( for spine fractures ), or cranial contents ( for skull fractures ) can cause other specific signs and symptoms.

However, bone spurs on the spine can impinge on nerves that leave the spine for other parts of the body.

Its position and close proximity to vital structures ( such as nerves and spine ) may make surgery difficult.

The nerves in this area are connected to the very lowest region of the spine, the sacral region, and retaining sensation and function in these parts of the body indicates that the spinal cord is only partially damaged.

The arachnoid can become severely inflamed because of adverse reactions to chemicals, infection from bacteria or viruses, as the result of direct injury to the spine, chronic compression of spinal nerves, or complications from spinal surgery or other invasive spinal procedures.

The anesthesia is produced by blocking the pudendal nerves near the ischial spine of the pelvis.

Foraminotomy is a medical operation used to relieve pressure on nerves that are being compressed by the intervertebral foramina, the passages through the bones of the vertebrae of the spine that pass nerve bundles to the body from the spinal cord.

Often reserved for spastic cerebral palsy, intrathecally-administered baclofen is done through an intrathecal pump implanted just below the skin of the stomach with a tube connected directly to the base of the spine, where it bathes the appropriate nerves using a dose about one thousand times smaller than that required by orally-administered baclofen.

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