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Intravenous nitrogen‐containing bisphosphonate used for the treatment of osteoporosis, Paget’s disease, and certain cancers affecting bone (e.g., multiple myeloma). Its mechanism of action involves the inhibition of osteoclast migration and maturation.  

To examine by manipulation or touch, palpation. To examine or feel by the hand. To examine part of the body by feeling it with the hand. To examine by means of touch to evaluate the health of an organ or body part.  

Providing relief without effecting a cure. Affording relief, but not cure. An alleviating medicine. Treatment provided to relieve the symptoms of a disease rather than to effect a cure. Alleviating symptoms with out curing the underlying cause. Inducing relief, but not cure. A treatment or drug which relieves symptoms but does nothing to cure the…

To alleviate symptoms or afford relief from a disease or medical condition. To ease or reduce effect or intensity, especially of a disease; to allay temporarily, as pain, without curing.  

Surgical reconstruction of a cleft palate. A surgical operation to suture and close a cleft palate.. An operation for uniting a cleft palate. The surgical stitching of the palate is termed staphylorrhaphy.  

The muscular ring that controls separation of the nasopharynx and oropharynx during swallowing and speech.  

Dysfunction of an anatomically intact soft palate resulting in inadequate palatopharyngeal closure. Palatopharyngeal incompetence is usually a result of neurologic or muscular disease or trauma.  

A record of the movement of the tongue and soft palate created during function, usually speech.  

The most superior and deepest portion of the palate. The palatal curvature. Superior surface of the hard palate.  

The muscular inability of the soft palate to adequately seal the port between the nasopharynx and the oropharynx during speech and swallowing. Failure to seal this port results in unintelligible speech and nasopharyngeal regurgitation of food and liquids. Conditions that cause palatal incompetence include degenerative nerve diseases, tumors, myasthenia gravis, strokes, cleft palate, polio, cerebral…