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• Electromyography may show short-duration, small-amplitude, polyphasic motor units with an increased terminal innervation ratio (number of fibers innervated by a single anterior horn cell).
• The superficial branch supplies sensory innervation to the skin of the anterior thigh and motor innervation to the sartorius muscle.
• It was found that embryonic viscera which in normal specimens are devoid of innervation, such as the mesonephroi, or which become scarcely innervated only in late developmental stages, such as the sex glands, the thyroid, the parathyroid and the spleen, were loaded with sympathetic nerve fibers during early embryonic stages. [ Nobel Lecture The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later
• Electrophysiological examination showed evidence of chronic partial denervation and reinnervation only in the upper limb segments.
• It may be postulated that central, peripheral and segmental effects are involved when acupoints are stimulated by acupuncture in somatic segments related to the innervation of the ovaries and the uterus.
• Doubtless a solution of the central control of pigmentation would confirm the best theory of the cause of leukoderma -- i. e., faulty innervation of the skin. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
• The dumbness might be the result of a defective structure of the mouth, or of the tongue, or a mere defective innervation of these parts; or it might result from congenital deafness, caused by some minute defect of the internal ear, which only a careful anatomist could discover. Essays
• Reinnervation is the process in which damaged nerves regenerate.
• Studies have shown that penile erection is achieved via postganglionic sympathetic adrenergic innervation in concert with parasympathetic neurons. The New Super-Nutrition
• Successful reinnervation of one sacral nerve has been shown to allow voluntary eliciting of a detrusor contraction; however, its efficacy is expected to be limited by several facts.