Sentences with phrase «called medial»

Chunks of cartilage called the medial and lateral menisci fit between the femur and tibia like cushions.
This is called a medial buttress and is a sign that arthritis is well along.
Many dogs with a ruptured cruciate ligament will have swelling on the inside aspect of the knee, and this is called a medial buttress.
Of course, the middle is as important as they are — it's called a medial head — and it gives you the power to lift your arms to the side.
2/4/2008 Researchers Use New Method to Probe Recollections in Memory - Impaired Patients Neuroscientists continue to debate whether or not long - term memory always depends on a region of the brain called the medial temporal lobe, which contains the brain's memory - processing center, the hippocampus.
They also saw in the gamblers» brains more synchronized activity between the amygdala and another region, called the medial prefrontal cortex.
These differences were also associated with a reduction of grey matter in a part of the brain called the medial prefrontal cortex.
The hippocampus is a structure near the base of the brain in a region called the medial temporal lobe.
The crucial connections dictating a mouse's place in the social hierarchy appear to sit in the part of the brain called the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), responsible for emotion and decision - making.
For the past eight years, he and his colleagues have been studying epilepsy patients who have had electrodes implanted in a region of their brains called the medial temporal lobe, as part of a study to identify the source of their seizures.
The ones that occur on the inside of the legs are called medial shin splints.

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Researchers were able to launch the device (armed with a high - definition camera, autopilot system, and GPS) mere seconds after the medical dispatch call, rather than the three minutes it took emergency medial services to deploy their resources.
Levy's research found a connection between risk preferences and the quantity of neurons in a different part of the brain (called the posterior parietal cortex), but not the amygdala or medial prefrontal cortex.
The medial orbitofrontal cortex has been associated with signaling when we feel satiated by a certain type of food (so called «sensory specific satiety»).
More specifically, his work has shown that dopamine signalling in two connected brain regions involved in opiate - related memory processing, called the Basolateral Amygdala (BLA), a region deep within the brain, and the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), located near the surface of the brain, is switched by opiate exposure.
In a 2010 study, psychiatrist Yvette Sheline and colleagues at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, found that these overactive networks converged on a common point in a region called the dorsal medial prefrontal cortex.
The calls continued as you put electrodes into the medial thalamus and the basal ganglia, areas seen as part of an anxiety system by fear researchers.
If we look at medial epicondylitis, it is an issue with the wrist flexors (wrist curling) and some people call it «golfer's elbow».
The medial luxating patella, commonly called «trick knee,» is an extremely common problem in toy breed dogs.
On the other hand, the plaintiff knows that she should be called for Dr. McCann's publicly funded medical referral for the medial nerve blocks, which are necessary diagnostic precursors to a rhizotomy, sometime in November or December 2011, yet the plaintiff has absented herself from the province for five months in order to go to her holiday home in Arizona.
Entertainment & Medial Law Signal The Royal Phone - Hoax: the Canadian Context Worldwide media coverage of the hoax call made last week by Syndey radio co-hosts to the London hospital continues.
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