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The lower part of the body, especially the buttocks or genital area (informal).  

Worried and nervous (informal).  

An emotional or mental illness (informal).  

Referring to nerves. Very easily worried.  

Tissue which forms nerves, and which is able to transmit the nerve impulses. The neurons and neuroglia of the nervous system. Tissue that carries messages to and from the brain and controls and coordinates all body functions.  

An electrochemical impulse which is transmitted by nerve cells. Transmission of stimuli to or from the central nervous system. The electrical activity in the membrane of a neuron that, by its rapid spread from one region to the next, is the means by which information is transmitted within the nervous system along the axons of…

A thin structure leading from a nerve cell and carrying nerve impulses, e.g. an axon.  

A surgical operation to remove all or part of a kidney and the ureter attached to it. Surgical removal of a kidney together with its ureter. This operation is performed for cancer of the kidney pelvis or ureter. It is also undertaken when the kidney has been destroyed by vesicoureteric reflux, to prevent subsequent continuing…

A surgical operation to cut into a kidney. Incision into the kidney, usually performed to remove a stone. Surgical incision into the substance of the kidney. This is usually undertaken to remove a kidney stone. The operation of cutting into the kidney, in search of calculi or for other reasons.  

A surgical operation to make a permanent opening into the pelvis of the kidney from the surface. Surgical formation of an opening that allows the introduction of a small tube into a kidney to drain urine to the surface of the abdomen. Nephrostomy allows urine to bypass a ureter (one of the two narrow tubes…