Category: N

A branch of the facial nerve consisting principally of sensory fibers.  

A bundle of parasympathetic autonomic fibers originating from the 2nd to 4th sacral nerves and passing to terminal ganglia from which postganglionic fibers pass to the pelvic organs (bladder, colon, rectum, prostate gland, seminal vesicles, external genitalia).  

A cerebroside present in brain tissue. It contains nervonic acid.  

Compression of a nerve or nerves resulting in nerve damage. This may cause anesthesia or pain if a sensory nerve is affected and paralysis if a motor nerve is involved. The compression may be due to physical pressure on the nerve (i.e., sleeping in a position in which a nerve is pressed upon by surrounding…

An element obtained by bombarding uranium with neutrons. Its atomic weight is 237 and its atomic number is 93.  

Tomograph of the kidney after the intravenous injection of a radiopaque contrast medium that is excreted by the kidney.  

Renal disease with characteristics of nephritis and nephrosis.  

A mosquito-borne viral infection found almost exclusively in northern European nations (e.g., Finland and Sweden). Its principal symptoms are fever, abdominal pain, and renal failure.  

Surgical detachment of an inflamed kidney from paranephric adhesions.  

Arising in or from the renal organs; capable of giving rise to kidney tissue.