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| slight paralysis affecting one side only |
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| eruption of groups of vesicles associated with the course of a nerve due to inflammation of ganglia and dorsal nerve roots resulting from an activation of the varicella-zoster virus, which may have laid dormant for many years |
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| autosomal, dominant, inherited degenerative brain disease, especially affecting the caudate nucleus, produces chorea |
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| reduced tension, e.g. in muscles |
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| an area of necrosis due to sudden loss of blood supply |
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| a lethal neurodegenerative disorder that appears to be transmitted primarily through direct contact with infected nervous tissue |
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| continuous rigidity associated with Parkinson's disease |
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| a condition caused by a lesion in the pons where the patient is alert but unable to respond to the environment due to loss of voluntary muscle control below the level of the occulomotor nuclei |
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| magnetic resonance imaging |
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| the use of a high intensity magnetic field to align protons, a transient electromagnetic pulse to disrupt the alignment and a radiowave detector to measure local energy changes |
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| any of a variety of diseases producing alteration or discoloration of the skin of the face |
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| carcinoma that spreads through the meninges without producing a discrete mass |
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| associated with the HIV-1 virus, the lymphoma originates outside the nervous system and forms sheets of cells in the arachnoid space |
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| inflammation of the meninges |
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| meningitis caused by a bacterial, viral, fungal, or protozoan infection |
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| a broad category of potentially fatal diseases causing muscle weakness and wasting |
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| motor neuron disease causes by demyelination of the corticospinal tracts |
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| muscle weakness that develops due to autoimmune damage to the acetylcholine receptors of noncardiac striated muscle |
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| any disorder affecting any part of the nervous system |
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| paralysis of one or more of the motor nerves to the eye |
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| movement of the eye when gaze is fixed |
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