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Any of several diseases, often familial, characterized by loss of muscle mass, increasing paralysis, and other signs of impaired muscular function. Progressive weakness and deterioration of muscle tissue, caused by degenerative nervous diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. A group of rare, progressive disorders in which the nerves that control muscle activity degenerate within the…

Nerve that conducts impulses from the brain or spinal cord to muscles or organs of the body. One of the nerves that carry impulses outward from the central nervous system to bring about activity in a muscle or gland. A nerve that carries signals from the brain or spinal cord to the muscles and glands.…

Part of the cerebral cortex associated with the function of voluntary muscles. Posterior part of the frontal lobe anterior to the central sulcus, from which impulses for volitional movement arise. The region on the brain’s surface that manages muscle movement.  

Inability to utter remembered words, due to lesion in the Broca speech area of the cerebrum, most commonly the result of a cerebrovascular accident (stroke). Aphasia in which patients know what they want to say but cannot say it because of their inability to coordinate the muscles controlling speech. It may be complete or partial.…

Elastic bands with a central protruding button, worn on both wrists, that provide acupressure over a nerve point thought to reduce motion sickness; these bands have been used in the British merchant marine for years, and are becoming more widely distributed in the United States; limited evidence suggests that the bands may also help some…

Any of several sebaceous glands on the areolae of the breast that lubricate and protect the breast during breastfeeding.  

Rounded eminence, especially mons pubis, the mound of fatty tissue overlying the pubic symphysis.  

Any disorder affecting a single nerve trunk, as in nerve compression from a fractured bone.  

Malignancy of the blood-forming tissues characterized by proliferation of monocytes and monoblasts. Symptoms include anorexia, fatigue, fever, weight loss, enlarged spleen, bleeding gums, and anemia. There are two forms: Schilling’s leukemia and Naegeli’s leukemia. Also called monoblastic leukemia; histiocytic leukemia.  

Chronic burning and pain of the tongue and sensitivity to spicy and hot foods. A chronic superficial glossitis characterized by burning or pain and an increased sensitivity to hot and spicy foods.