Category: N

A broken bone that remains in the normal anatomical alignment.  

Not involved in bringing on the condition or disease.  

Cutting or freeing nerve tissue from inflammatory adhesions. The loosening of adhesions surrounding a nerve. Depletion of a nerve due to excessive stimulation; nerve strain; the release of bindings constraining a nerve; breakdown of nerve tissue.  

Cysts containing fluid within a fibrous capsule attached to a tendon sheath of the hands, wrists, or feet.  

The layer of the eye containing the retina.  

Branch of the occipitalis nerve that divides in the orbit into the supraorbital and supratrochlear nerves.  

A group of nerve fibers that are either afferent or efferent in their function.  

Surgical intervention to relieve pressure on a nerve by excision of constricting bands of tissue or by enlarging the bony canal.  

Linked neurons that transmit electrical and chemical messages between the body and central nervous system.  

Absence or stenosis of the mitral and aortic valves associated with an abnormally small left ventricle and aortic arch, possibly due to genetic factors.