Saturday, October 24, 2009
gasserin ganglion?
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"Gas*se"ri*an (?), a. Relating to Casserio (L. Gasserius), the discover of the Gasserian ganglion. Gasserian ganglion (Anat.), a large ganglion, at the root of the trigeminal, or fifth cranial, nerve. "
spelled "gasserian ganglion" aka "trigeminal ganglion".
Trigeminal refers to the 5th cranial nerve arising from the pons in the brain. Ganglions (ganglia) are a mass of nervous tissue made up mostly of neuron cell bodies %26 lie outside the brain or spinal cord
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