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  • Thumbnail for Nerve
    A nerve is an enclosed, cable-like bundle of nerve fibers (called axons) in the peripheral nervous system. Nerves have historically been considered the...
    24 KB (2,736 words) - 20:50, 26 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nicomachean Ethics
    within humans, and, "so far as we can, make ourselves immortal, and strain every nerve to live in accordance with the best thing in us". According to Aristotle...
    156 KB (18,260 words) - 20:48, 12 September 2024
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    into a splendour comparable only with ancient Rome. Why not, then, strain every nerve to hold innovation at bay and prolong that splendour for all time...
    40 KB (5,150 words) - 05:25, 8 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nerve compression syndrome
    scar tissue around the nerve as well as the decreased ability of the nerve to glide, increasing strain during movements. Radial nerve entrapment is seen after...
    64 KB (7,613 words) - 13:20, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wheal Owles
    made for the ladders, and soon found out it was a case of hurry and strain every nerve for life or death. In the dark they did their best to gain the surface...
    5 KB (582 words) - 17:19, 6 October 2024
  • speaking with Jeeves in chapter 8: "Then what we've got to do is to strain every nerve to see that he makes a hit. What are those things people have?" "Sir...
    19 KB (2,504 words) - 14:52, 4 October 2022
  • formed round the nucleus of the London trained bands, and Essex, straining every nerve to regain touch with the enemy, reached Kineton, where he was only...
    20 KB (2,824 words) - 10:58, 8 April 2024
  • were our positions relatively the converse of what they are I would strain every nerve to serve a friend of yours, and I do not doubt that you will grant...
    18 KB (2,660 words) - 05:21, 19 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Ghaghra
    was but little satisfactory. He found that the Pathans who were straining every nerve to recover their military and political ascendancy had gathered...
    19 KB (2,655 words) - 17:28, 12 August 2024
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    concentration of nerve endings and can be an erogenous zone, which can make anal intercourse pleasurable if performed properly. The pudendal nerve that branches...
    19 KB (2,005 words) - 15:40, 18 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pathophysiology of nerve entrapment
    longitudinally by shear strain. Surprisingly, smaller nerve fibers are more resistant to compression than large nerve fibers. Nerve function depends on its...
    33 KB (4,337 words) - 03:54, 18 April 2024
  • now threatened... The next days proved critical, with the enemy straining every nerve to keep up his encirclement and throwing in, besides his rifle divisions...
    50 KB (7,244 words) - 16:52, 11 April 2024
  • nerve conduction studies and examination of the cerebrospinal fluid. There are a number of subtypes based on the areas of weakness, results of nerve conduction...
    61 KB (6,327 words) - 19:53, 23 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Behçet's disease
    strains of S. sanguinis has been found to have a homologous antigenicity. Vasculitis resulting in occlusion of the vessels supplying the optic nerve may...
    46 KB (5,149 words) - 20:22, 1 October 2024
  • now threatened... The next days proved critical, with the enemy straining every nerve to keep up his encirclement and throwing in, besides his rifle divisions...
    40 KB (5,572 words) - 17:55, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Varicella zoster virus
    (chickenpox), the virus lies dormant in neurons, including the cranial nerve ganglia, dorsal root ganglia, and autonomic ganglia. Many years after the...
    27 KB (3,084 words) - 02:39, 3 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for 183rd Rifle Division
    now threatened... The next days proved critical, with the enemy straining every nerve to keep up his encirclement and throwing in, besides his rifle divisions...
    92 KB (13,858 words) - 02:21, 7 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Matthew Arlington Batson
    and are now our main reliance and support." On 19 November 1899, straining every nerve to block Aguinaldo's retreat into the mountains, Batson and his...
    19 KB (2,741 words) - 21:40, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sensorineural hearing loss
    organ (cochlea and associated structures), or the vestibulocochlear nerve (cranial nerve VIII). SNHL accounts for about 90% of reported hearing loss.[citation...
    73 KB (9,616 words) - 17:14, 12 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Polio
    neurons. With the destruction of nerve cells, the muscles no longer receive signals from the brain or spinal cord; without nerve stimulation, the muscles atrophy...
    129 KB (12,786 words) - 02:33, 11 October 2024
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