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Facial Paralysis

"Facial Paralysis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Severe or complete loss of facial muscle motor function. This condition may result from central or peripheral lesions. Damage to CNS motor pathways from the cerebral cortex to the facial nuclei in the pons leads to facial weakness that generally spares the forehead muscles. FACIAL NERVE DISEASES generally results in generalized hemifacial weakness. NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION DISEASES and MUSCULAR DISEASES may also cause facial paralysis or paresis.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Facial Paralysis" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Facial Paralysis" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 176 publications over 29 distinct years, with a maximum of 16 publications in 2014 and 2015
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