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PAIRS OF CRANIAL NERVES

Specialty Definition: PAIRS OF CRANIAL NERVES

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Medicine

Nerves arising directly from the brainstem and making their exit to the periphery via openings in the skull. Usually described and numbered as 12 pairs, the first two are not true nerves but nerve-fibre tracts of the brain. Source: European Union. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: PAIRS OF CRANIAL NERVES

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Health

The peripheral nervous system also includes 12 pairs of cranial nerves located on the underside of the brain. (references)

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Modern Translation: PAIRS OF CRANIAL NERVES

Language Translations for "PAIRS OF CRANIAL NERVES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Spanish

  

pares craneales (cranial nerves). (various references)

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Anagrams: PAIRS OF CRANIAL NERVES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-e-e-f-i-i-l-n-n-o-p-r-r-r-s-s-v"

-5 letters: pararosanilines.

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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