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).

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.

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.

Protesters fighting to save Lake Urmia in Iran from permanent environmental damage have not given up.

But if treatment has been delayed, the patient may be left with recurring ulcers and permanent damage.

The 1981 floods ruined entire crop fields and caused permanent damage to many villages in the area.

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.

Poor policy choices, on the other hand, will at best delay recovery and at worst do permanent damage.

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.

The late effects of cancer treatment include permanent organ and tissue damage, hormonal and reproductive dysfunction, and second cancers.

Austerity might have worsened the slump temporarily, but it did deliver fiscal sustainability without permanent damage to the economy.

But the more urgent threat is that any kind of germline genetic modification could do long term, permanent damage.

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.

The authors argue that the impact of logging operations are long term, practically permanent, and that the measures employed create new damage, exacerbate existing damage, and extent the area affected by logging.

Forty three years old today, Diyab suffered permanent damage to his back while in the care of the U.S. government.

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).

Others expressed their concerns about the impact of climate change and contamination of soil and water on natural resources that cause permanent 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.