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What two prominent muscles have been affected if your right accessory nerve was severed in an accident and there was muscle atrophy?
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When a nerve is cut, the muscle that communicates with the brain along that nerve no longer functions. this results in atrophy, the muscle thinning. It may not be repairable since the nerves degenerate when they get cut. If the surgeon says a nerve graft is doable, then there can be good sucess with a repair.
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What part of the brain is affected by Olivopontocerebellar atrophy?
Olivopontocerebellar atrophy (OPCA) is a group of disorders characterized by degeneration of three brain areas: the inferior olives, the pons, and the cerebellum .
What is global diffusion?
Diffuse global atrophy, or diffuse brain atrophy, is when the brain shrinks in size. It's more severe than the atrophy that occurs normally with aging.
How are the eyes affected by Leigh syndrome?
Various abnormalities of the eyes are also common in Leigh syndrome. Ophthalmoplegia (paralysis of some or all of the muscles of the eye) is a typical finding, along with optic atrophy (degeneration of the optic nerve) and pigmentary retinopathy.
What is the term used for astronauts loss of muscle mass?
atrophy
What is very large in a child and will atrophy in advanced age?
thymus
What two prominent muscles are affected in muscle atrophy?
Muscle atrophy can affect any muscle within the body. Atrophy is a wasting or decrease in size of a body organ, tissue, or part owing to disease, injury, or lack of use. Any muscle is subject to atrophy from either lack of use or disease. This is especially true after injury or extended bedrest. To answer your question there are no two prominent muscles that are exclusively affected in muscle atrophy.
Who is most affected by optic atrophy?
Elderly people are most often affected by it.
What part of the brain is affected by Olivopontocerebellar atrophy?
Olivopontocerebellar atrophy (OPCA) is a group of disorders characterized by degeneration of three brain areas: the inferior olives, the pons, and the cerebellum .
In the muscular system atrophy means what?
Pathology. A wasting or decrease in size of a body organ, tissue, or part owing to disease, injury, or lack of use: muscular atrophy of a person affected with paralysis.
Is bone Atrophy always reversible?
i have atrophy in my nee is that reversible? i has accident 2 year ego and have 4 operation in me leg i have almost one year without moving i am moving yet but a need know if it is reversible
Gary was injured in an automobile accident that severed the motor neurons innervating his quadriceps Even though he has had extensive physical therapy he is still suffering muscle atrophy?
In denervation (disuse) atrophy, fibrous connective tissue replaces the muscle tissue that was lost. When atrophy is complete, fibrous tissue cannot be reversed to muscle tissue.
What is a Sentence for atrophy?
She has a muscular atrophy.
What is bone atrophy?
Atrophy is the wearing away of an organ or tissue because of lack of use. Bone Atrophy, obviously, is atrophy of bones.
What is periventricular atrophy?
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What rhymes with atrophy?
There are no perfect rhymes for the word atrophy.
What is diffuse fatty atrophy of the pancreas?
atrophy of the pancreas
How common is hereditary Olivopontocerebellar atrophy?
Hereditary OPCA affects approximately 10,000 people in the United States, with males affected approximately twice as often as females.
