It can also cause nerve damage, eventually leading to paralysis.

The tumor cells always stay on the outside of the nerve, but the tumor itself may either push the nerve aside and or up against a bony structure (thereby possibly causing damage).

For example, fractures of the petrous temporal bone can selectively damage the nerve, as can aneurysms of the intracavernous carotid artery.

The facial nerve is the seventh cranial nerve, or simply cranial nerve VII.

For example, insufficient angiogenesis not enough blood vessels leads to wounds that don't heal, heart attacks, legs without circulation, death from stroke, nerve damage.

The trochlear nerve (the fourth cranial nerve) is a motor nerve (a somatic efferent nerve) that innervates a single muscle the superior oblique muscle of the eye.

Fiber tracts of the mammalian central nervous system (as opposed to the peripheral nervous system) are incapable of regeneration, and, hence, optic nerve damage produces irreversible blindness.

The name is an acronym deriving from some of the main features Polyneuropathy (peripheral nerve damage), Organomegaly (abnormal enlargement of organs), Endocrinopathy (damage to hormone producing glands) or Edema, M protein (an abnormal immunoglobulin) and Skin abnormalities (including hyperpigmentation and hypertrichosis).

Hundreds of people were discovered to have levels greater than 50 ppm of mercury in their hair, the level at which people are likely to experience nerve damage.

The vestibulocochlear nerve (auditory vestibular nerve), known as the eighth cranial nerve, transmits sound and equilibrium (balance) information from the inner ear to the brain.

The type of nerve damage sustained in horses with Australian stringhalt suggests a mould toxin (mycotoxin) or a fungal 'poison' found in the soils may be a cause for this condition.

The sixth nerve, the abducens nerve, which innervates the lateral rectus muscle of the eye (moves the eye laterally), is also commonly affected but fourth nerve, the trochlear nerve, (innervates the superior oblique muscle, which moves the eye downward) involvement is unusual.

But Estonia kept its nerve.

Following nerve damage, NaCl channel accumulation causes hyperexcitability, and downregulation of the TTX resistant Nav1.8 (sensory neuron specific, SNS1) channel and upregulation of TTX sensitive Nav1.3 (brain type III) and TRPV1 channels.

Because good control of blood glucose can slow or prevent the progression of complications associated with diabetes, such as nerve or eye damage, a successful transplant may reduce the risk of these complications.

It was a nerve wracking experience.

Results may indicate lesion to the spinal cord nerve root, or intervertebral disc herniation pressing on the spinal nerve roots.

Mass lesions that push the brainstem downward can damage the nerve by stretching it between the point where it emerges from the pons and the point where it hooks over the petrous temporal bone.

And yes, it's a little nerve wracking.

The International Foundation for Optic Nerve Diseases (IFOND) sponsors research and information on a variety of optic nerve disorders and may provide general direction.

Nerve growth factor (NGF) is a small secreted protein that is important for the growth, maintenance, and survival of certain target neurons (nerve cells).

The larvae are then transported via the blood to the central nervous system (CNS), where they are the most common cause of eosinophilic meningitis, a serious condition that can lead to death or permanent brain and nerve damage.

It takes nerve and energy to live like that.

Compared to the body of an oyster, for example, chimpanzees and humans are at least 99 identical bone for bone, muscle for muscle, nerve for nerve, organ for organ.

Fortunately, Gandhi held her nerve and began to prepare for war.

Once within a muscle or nerve cell, the virus undergoes replication.

Many nerve, respiratory and muscle diseases might also be caused by prions.

How i hate that day! its nerve wrecking if u ask me.

The silence of Arab governments in particular is hitting a raw nerve.

This condition leads to brain inflammation and the death of nerve cells.

Distal axonopathy occurs most severely in the longest nerve in the horse.

Treatments included peripheral nerve stimulation, electrical muscle stimulation and electric shock therapy.

In 2008, Mexico s government decided to attack the drug cartels operational nerve centers.

The strangest thing about the Duma election was that Putin lost his nerve.

Epidermal nerve fiber density testing (ENFD) is a more recently developed neuropathology test in which a punch skin biopsy is taken to identify small fiber neuropathies by analyzing the nerve fibers of the skin.

After all, Egypt is the heart, brain, and nerve center of the Arab world.

It may refer to the coupling of adjacent (touching) nerve fibers caused by the exchange of ions between the cells, or it may refer to coupling of nerve fibers as a result of local electric fields.

It shows how vulnerable a modern city can be when its leaders lose their nerve.

By calling for the destruction of the Zionist entity, Iran s president rubs that raw nerve.

That takes a little bit of nerve, and, darn it, once in a while you fail.

In pathology, perineural invasion, abbreviated PNI, refers to cancer spreading to the space surrounding a nerve.

They recognized these symptoms were the result of inflammation of the optic nerve and spinal cord, respectively.

(d) Moral damage

Compensation for damage

(a) damage means significant damage caused to persons, property or the environment and includes