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- From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: ALS
- Message-ID: <15839@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 14:40:31 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.023800.6442@techbook.com> <15826@pitt.UUCP> <1992Jul27.052244.8307@techbook.com>
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- In article <1992Jul27.052244.8307@techbook.com> kim@techbook.com (Kim Larsen) writes:
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- >Oh, dear...
- >My Barron's Dictionary of Medical Terms has utterly failed me. What is
- >an olivopontocerebellar degeneration? What is a clivus chordoma?
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- OPCA is a hereditary multi-system degeneration. It would require a bit
- to explain it all, it's quite complicated. Check it out in a neurology
- textbook. The clivus is a bone in the skull. A chordoma is a tumor
- of the notochordal remnant (from fetal life) and occurs at the ends
- of the neural tube, the sacrum and the clivus.
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