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121Nerve — A bundle of fibers that uses electrical and chemical signals to transmit sensory and motor information from one body part to another. See nervous system. * * * A whitish cordlike structure composed of one or more bundles (fascicles) of myelinated …
122DOULEUR — Les mécanismes neurophysiologiques qui provoquent chez l’homme une sensation de douleur ne sont pas encore totalement connus. Deux conceptions s’affrontent depuis longtemps. Pour les uns, la douleur aurait, comme les autres sensations spécifiques …
123Visual cortex — Brain: Visual cortex View of the brain from behind. Red = Brodmann area 17 (primary visual cortex); orange = area 18; yellow = area 19 …
124Spinal cord — Latin medulla spinalis The spinal cord nested in the vertebral column …
125branch — An offshoot; in anatomy, one of the primary divisions of a nerve or blood vessel. A b.. See ramus, artery, nerve, vein. SYN: ramus (1) [TA]. accessory meningeal b. SYN: pterygomeningeal artery …
126skeleton — skeletonless, adj. skeletonlike, adj. /skel i tn/, n. 1. Anat., Zool. the bones of a human or an animal considered as a whole, together forming the framework of the body. 2. any of various structures forming a rigid framework in an invertebrate.… …
127ENCÉPHALE — L’encéphale, défini comme le contenu de la boîte crânienne, est composé, d’avant en arrière, du cerveau, du cervelet et du tronc cérébral (dont le bulbe rachidien est la partie postérieure), avec les nerfs qui s’y rattachent; son poids moyen est… …
128List of anatomical topics — This page aims to list articles related to anatomy. This list is not necessarily complete or up to date if you see an article that should be here but isn t (or one that shouldn t be here but is), please update the page accordingly. NOTOC A… …
