The vagus nerve links the brain to such major organs as the heart and lungs.
It was later discovered he had suffered stab wounds, that while not life-threatening were close to several major organs.
Arsenic can damage most of the body's major organs and the immune system.
It has been a very long and tough road for me suffering nine metastasis, ten major surgeries and losing a few major organs.
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The bodies of both girls were returned to their parents - but only after major organs, including in both cases the brain, had been removed.
Lupus is an autoimmune disease characterized by inflammation of the joints, skin, major organs and central nervous system as the immune system attacks healthy tissues and cells.
By disturbing the body's equilibrium, anabolic steroids can potentially cause damage to many of the body's major organs, particularly the liver, which has to deal with breaking down the compound.
Acting as a messenger between the central nervous system and the major organs, the vagus nerve slows the heart rate (through the release of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine), calms the immune response (by controlling the release of proteins called cytokines), and communicates with the muscles that control respiration and digestion.
Remember those white-knuckle flights through stormy weather where unexpected plunges in altitude result in near-permanent relocations of major internal organs?
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Yediot, Israel Radio and other major news organs championed the cause of an Israeli pullout from Lebanon for a decade.
After exhuming his body in January, pathologists collected samples of hair, nails and most major body organs, as well as contents of the stomach, Cina said at the time.
She said scientists still did not understand the rejection issue properly and added that there were major doubts over whether animal organs could sustain human life.
That's interesting, because Bristol is now a very different company from what it was last year, having spun off one division, agreed to sell another and bought a third--the corporate equivalent of major surgery, adding and removing organs that are each worth billions of dollars.
Alder Hey was at the centre of a major scandal in 1999 after it emerged that pathologist Dick van Velzen had hoarded thousands of children's organs at the hospital without consent of parents.
While ablation is generally safer than major surgery, serious--even fatal--complications can occur if the needle punctures or burns vital organs.
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