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The Hypoglossal (XII) nerve, a motor one, has an individualized nucleus on the ventral-medial portion on each side of the medulla oblongata. It is responsible for the tongue extrinsic and ...

Charles Bell, Continuation of the Paper on the Relations between the Nerves of Motion and of Sensation, and the Brain; and More Particularly on the Structure of the Medulla Oblongata and of the Spinal ...

This is a long nerve stretching from the abdomen via the neck to the medulla oblongata. The nerve consequently served as an entrance into the brain and, in particular, the medulla oblongata," Di ...

THIS book consists of a detailed account of a model of the medulla oblongata, pons Varolii and mesencephalon, which was made in the anatomical laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University by a ...

Medial Medullary Infarction: Diffusion-weighted MRI scans; (Left) Lower medulla; (Right) Upper medulla. Note the small area of infarction (bright signal) in the right medial medulla. Infarcts in the ...

The hypoglossal nerve is one of the 12 cranial nerves arising from the brain. It's a paired nerve, and you have two — left and right.

These regions are heavily innervated by the vagus nerve. One month later, the researchers detected mouse pSer129-α-synuclein (p-syn) within the pylorus and duodenum, as well as in the medulla ...

Rhythmic breathing (normal, quiet breathing at rest or during sleep) is initiated by the respiratory centre in the medulla oblongata of the brainstem. This centre has two groups of neurones: a ventral ...

Five of the six children of an Akron family had their tonsils out one day last summer and within 48 hours all five came down with infantile paralysis. Three of them died. The sixth child did not ...