See Also: musculotubal canal(medicine)
septum of musculotubal canal(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
gangliosidosis g(m1)(medicine)
gangliosidosis(medicine)
GM1 gangliosidosis(medicine)
GM2 gangliosidosis(medicine)
generalised gangliosidosis(medicine)
B variant GM2-gangliosidosis(health)
infantile GM2 gangliosidosis(medicine)

musculotubal canal (medicine) and gangliosidosis (medicine)


musculotubal canal (medicine)


musculotubal canal


A canal beginning at the anterior border of the petrous portion of the temporal bone near its junction with the squamous portion, and passing to the tympanic cavity; it is divided by the cochleariform process into two saemicanals: one for the auditory (eustachian) tube, the Other for the tensor tympani muscle.

Synonym: canalis musculotubarius.


gangliosidosis (medicine)


gangliosidosis


Any disease characterised, in part, by the abnormal accumulation within the nervous system of specific gangliosides, e.g., GM2 gangliosidosis, Tay-Sachs disease, caused by hexosaminidase A enzyme deficiency with accumulation of GM2 ganglioside

Synonym: gangliosialidosis, ganglioside lipidosis.