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60 relations: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Anthropometry, Autoimmunity, Axon, Carpal tunnel syndrome, Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, Common peroneal nerve, Conversion disorder, Diabetes mellitus, Diabetic neuropathy, Electric current, Electrical impedance, Electrochemistry, Electrodiagnostic medicine, Electromyography, Extrafusal muscle fiber, F wave, Fasudil, Free nerve ending, Golgi tendon organ, Group A nerve fiber, Group C nerve fiber, Guillain–Barré syndrome, Intrafusal muscle fiber, Lambert–Eaton myasthenic syndrome, Latency (engineering), Mechanoreceptor, Median nerve, Microelectromechanical systems, Muscle spindle, Myelin, Myelin incisure, Myocyte, Nerve compression syndrome, Nerve conduction study, Neural pathway, Nociception, Nociceptor, Node of Ranvier, Noise (electronics), Peripheral neuropathy, Phalen maneuver, Poliomyelitis, Postganglionic nerve fibers, Preganglionic nerve fibers, Proprioception, Rho-associated protein kinase, Sensory neuron, Speed of electricity, Sural nerve, ..., Thermoreceptor, Tibial nerve, Tick paralysis, Tinel's sign, Toxic and nutritional optic neuropathy, Transverse myelitis, Type Ia sensory fiber, Type II sensory fiber, Ulnar nerve, West Nile virus. Expand index (10 more) »
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neurone disease (MND), and Lou Gehrig's disease, is a specific disease which causes the death of neurons controlling voluntary muscles.
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Anthropometry
Anthropometry (from Greek ἄνθρωπος anthropos, "human", and μέτρον metron, "measure") refers to the measurement of the human individual.
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Autoimmunity
Autoimmunity is the system of immune responses of an organism against its own healthy cells and tissues.
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Axon
An axon (from Greek ἄξων áxōn, axis) or nerve fiber, is a long, slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, that typically conducts electrical impulses known as action potentials, away from the nerve cell body.
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Carpal tunnel syndrome
Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a medical condition due to compression of the median nerve as it travels through the wrist at the carpal tunnel.
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Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is an acquired immune-mediated inflammatory disorder of the peripheral nervous system.
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Common peroneal nerve
The common peroneal nerve (common fibular nerve; external popliteal nerve; lateral popliteal nerve) is a nerve in the lower leg that provides sensation over the posterolateral part of the leg and the knee joint.
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Conversion disorder
Conversion disorder (CD) is a diagnostic category used in some psychiatric classification systems.
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Diabetes mellitus
Diabetes mellitus (DM), commonly referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic disorders in which there are high blood sugar levels over a prolonged period.
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Diabetic neuropathy
Diabetic neuropathies are nerve damaging disorders associated with diabetes mellitus.
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Electric current
An electric current is a flow of electric charge.
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Electrical impedance
Electrical impedance is the measure of the opposition that a circuit presents to a current when a voltage is applied.
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Electrochemistry
Electrochemistry is the branch of physical chemistry that studies the relationship between electricity, as a measurable and quantitative phenomenon, and identifiable chemical change, with either electricity considered an outcome of a particular chemical change or vice versa.
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Electrodiagnostic medicine
Electrodiagnosis (EDX) is a method of medical diagnosis that obtains information about diseases by passively recording the electrical activity of body parts (that is, their natural electrophysiology) or by measuring their response to external electrical stimuli (evoked potentials).
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Electromyography
Electromyography (EMG) is an electrodiagnostic medicine technique for evaluating and recording the electrical activity produced by skeletal muscles.
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Extrafusal muscle fiber
Extrafusal muscle fibers are the skeletal standard muscle fibers that are innervated by alpha motor neurons and generate tension by contracting, thereby allowing for skeletal movement.
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F wave
In neuroscience, an F wave is the second of two voltage changes observed after electrical stimulation is applied to the skin surface above the distal region of a nerve.
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Fasudil
Fasudil (INN) is a potent Rho-kinase inhibitor and vasodilator.
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Free nerve ending
A free nerve ending (FNE) or bare nerve ending, is an unspecialized, afferent nerve fiber ending of a sensory neuron.
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Golgi tendon organ
The Golgi tendon organ (GTO) (also called Golgi organ, tendon organ, neurotendinous organ or neurotendinous spindle) is a proprioceptive sensory receptor organ that senses changes in muscle tension.
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Group A nerve fiber
Group A nerve fibers are one of the three classes of nerve fiber as generally classified by Erlanger and Gasser.
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Group C nerve fiber
Group C nerve fibers are one of three classes of nerve fiber in the central nervous system and peripheral nervous system.
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Guillain–Barré syndrome
Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rapid-onset muscle weakness caused by the immune system damaging the peripheral nervous system.
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Intrafusal muscle fiber
Intrafusal muscle fibers are skeletal muscle fibers that serve as specialized sensory organs (proprioceptors) that detect the amount and rate of change in length of a muscle.
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Lambert–Eaton myasthenic syndrome
Lambert–Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS) is a rare autoimmune disorder characterized by muscle weakness of the limbs.
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Latency (engineering)
Latency is a time interval between the stimulation and response, or, from a more general point of view, a time delay between the cause and the effect of some physical change in the system being observed.
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Mechanoreceptor
A mechanoreceptor is a sensory receptor that responds to mechanical pressure or distortion.
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Median nerve
The median nerve is a nerve in humans and other animals in the upper limb.
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Microelectromechanical systems
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS, also written as micro-electro-mechanical, MicroElectroMechanical or microelectronic and microelectromechanical systems and the related micromechatronics) is the technology of microscopic devices, particularly those with moving parts.
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Muscle spindle
Muscle spindles are stretch receptors within the body of a muscle that primarily detect changes in the length of the muscle.
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Myelin
Myelin is a lipid-rich substance that surrounds the axon of some nerve cells, forming an electrically insulating layer.
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Myelin incisure
Myelin incisures (a.k.a. Schmidt-Lanterman clefts, Schmidt-Lanterman incisures, clefts of Schmidt-Lanterman, segments of Lanterman, medullary segments), are small pockets of cytoplasm left behind during the Schwann cell myelination process.
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Myocyte
A myocyte (also known as a muscle cell) is the type of cell found in muscle tissue.
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Nerve compression syndrome
Nerve compression syndrome or compression neuropathy, also known as entrapment neuropathy, is a medical condition caused by direct pressure on a nerve.
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Nerve conduction study
A nerve conduction study (NCS) is a medical diagnostic test commonly used to evaluate the function, especially the ability of electrical conduction, of the motor and sensory nerves of the human body.
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Neural pathway
A neural pathway is the connection formed by axons that project from neurons to make synapses onto neurons in another location, to enable a signal to be sent from one region of the nervous system to another.
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Nociception
Nociception (also nocioception or nociperception, from Latin nocere 'to harm or hurt') is the sensory nervous system's response to certain harmful or potentially harmful stimuli.
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Nociceptor
A nociceptor is a sensory neuron that responds to damaging or potentially damaging stimuli by sending “possible threat” signals to the spinal cord and the brain.
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Node of Ranvier
Nodes of Ranvier, also known as myelin-sheath gaps, occur along a myelinated axon where the axolemma is exposed to the extracellular space.
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Noise (electronics)
In electronics, noise is an unwanted disturbance in an electrical signal.
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Peripheral neuropathy
Peripheral neuropathy (PN) is damage to or disease affecting nerves, which may impair sensation, movement, gland or organ function, or other aspects of health, depending on the type of nerve affected.
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Phalen maneuver
Phalen's maneuver is a diagnostic test for carpal tunnel syndrome discovered by an American orthopedist named George S. Phalen.
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Poliomyelitis
Poliomyelitis, often called polio or infantile paralysis, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus.
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Postganglionic nerve fibers
In the autonomic nervous system, fibers from the ganglion to the effector organ are called postganglionic fibers.
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Preganglionic nerve fibers
In the autonomic nervous system, fibers from the CNS to the ganglion are known as preganglionic fibers.
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Proprioception
Proprioception, from Latin proprius, meaning "one's own", "individual", and capio, capere, to take or grasp, is the sense of the relative position of one's own parts of the body and strength of effort being employed in movement.
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Rho-associated protein kinase
Rho-associated protein kinase (ROCK) is a kinase belonging to the AGC (PKA/ PKG/PKC) family of serine-threonine kinases.
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Sensory neuron
Sensory neurons also known as afferent neurons are neurons that convert a specific type of stimulus, via their receptors, into action potentials or graded potentials.
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Speed of electricity
The word electricity refers generally to the movement of electrons (or other charge carriers) through a conductor in the presence of potential and an electric field.
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Sural nerve
The sural nerve is a sensory nerve in the calf region (sura) of the leg.
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Thermoreceptor
A thermoreceptor is a non-specialised sense receptor, or more accurately the receptive portion of a sensory neuron, that codes absolute and relative changes in temperature, primarily within the innocuous range.
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Tibial nerve
The tibial nerve is a branch of the sciatic nerve.
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Tick paralysis
Tick paralysis is the only tick-borne disease that is not caused by an infectious organism.
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Tinel's sign
Tinel's sign is a way to detect irritated nerves.
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Toxic and nutritional optic neuropathy
Toxic and nutritional optic neuropathy is a group of medical disorders defined by visual impairment due to optic nerve damage secondary to a toxic substance and/or nutritional deficiency.
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Transverse myelitis
Transverse myelitis (TM) is a rare neurological condition in which the spinal cord is inflamed.
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Type Ia sensory fiber
A type Ia sensory fiber, or a primary afferent fiber is a type of afferent nerve fiber.
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Type II sensory fiber
Type II sensory fiber (group Aβ) is a type of sensory fiber, the second of the two main groups of stretch receptors.
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Ulnar nerve
In human anatomy, the ulnar nerve is a nerve that runs near the ulna bone.
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West Nile virus
West Nile virus (WNV) is a single-stranded RNA virus that causes West Nile fever.
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