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gan·gli·a

 (găng′glē-ə)
n.
A plural of ganglion.
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It was only upon the third day that the ganglia ran down and the dreadful things were still.
Not only was the New York Government a weak one and insufficiently provided with police, but the destruction of the City Hall--and Post-Offide and other central ganglia had hopelessly disorganised the co-operation of part with part.
Because out of all four parasympathetic ganglia, sphenopalatine (SPG) is the only ganglion which has some direct link to the external environment through the nasal mucosa, pain physicians, anesthesiologists, researchers have became intrigued by the innovative approach this route offers for the delivery of lidocaine to reduce parasympathetic outflow.
Intestinal neuronal dysplasia type B was described originally as a malformation of the parasympathetic submucosal plexus characterized by an HSCR-like pattern of AChE-positive innervation in the lamina propria and increased density and size of submucosal ganglia and nerve fibers.
It consists of three pairs of ganglia of orange color: cerebral (CG), pedal (PG) and visceral (VG).
The terms to be used for the sympathetic nervous system were fixed by the International Anatomical Nomenclature Committee [Nomina Anatomica, Paris (1955)] where the term "truncus sympatheticus" was followed by the names of its ganglia, "ganglia trunci sympathetic." The ganglia in the cervical region were named as "ganglion cervical medium" and "ganglion cervicothoracicum" or "ganglion stellatum."
The basal ganglia are located at the base of the forebrain (cerebrum) and have attracted attention in medicine for various disturbances that appear with dysfunctions caused by diseases or trauma.
However, the scan did demonstrate mildly increased density within the right basal ganglia, involving the caudate and lentiform nuclei and to a lesser extent globus pallidus (Figure 1).
Background: Idiopathic basal ganglia calcification (IBGC) is a genetic disorder characterized by bilateral basal ganglia calcification and neural degeneration.
Hemichorea associated with hyperglycemia (HCAH) is a rare, specific syndrome with non-ketotic hyperglycemia, hemichorea and hyperintense appearance in the basal ganglia in T1-weighted brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (1).