They are sensitive to the touch as they have many nerve endings and it is common to press or massage them with hands or orally before or during sexual activity.

Investing in Happy Endings

Pain in cancer can be produced by mechanical or chemical stimulation of specialized pain signalling nerve endings called nociceptors (nociceptive pain), or it may be caused by diseased or damaged nerves, in which case it is called neuropathic pain.

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

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.

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.

In Roman mythology, Janus was the god of gates, doorways, beginnings, and endings.

I have no intention of telling the Council nice stories with happy endings.

Policy harmonization, rather than separation, seems to be the key to happy cyclical endings.

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.

It was a nerve wracking experience.

It offers beginnings and endings to the Caucasus, the Black Sea, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean.

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

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).

Like a novel with two possible endings, ours is a story yet to be written in this new century.

It takes nerve and energy to live like that.

Unfortunately, Zahra s story is one of many. Each child bride has her own tale, but happy endings are a rarity.

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

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.

We take the resulting narrative effects for granted surprise endings, intriguing situations, and a compulsion to read or watch until the finish.

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.

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).

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.

The third and fourth lumbricals (most ulnar two) are innervated by the deep branch of the ulnar nerve.

The syndrome may be due to anatomical variations in the muscle nerve relationship, or from overuse or strain.

The radial nerve is vulnerable as it passes through this space, for all of the reasons mentioned above.