| anesthesia | Loss of normal sensation or feeling. A drug used to produce anesthesia. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| rhombencephalic gustatory nucleus | The rostral one-third of the nucleus of solitary tract, receiving afferents from the facial, glossopharyngeal, and vagus nerves conveying impulses originating from the receptor cells of the taste buds. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gustatory | Relating to gustation, or taste. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gustatory anaesthesia | Absence of the sense of taste. (12 Dec 1998) |
| gustatory bud | One of a number of flask-shaped cell nests located in the epithelium of vallate, fungiform, and foliate papillae of the tongue and also in the soft palate, epiglottis, and posterior wall of the pharynx; it consists of sustentacular, gustatory, and basal cells between which the intragemmal sensory nerve fibres terminate. Synonym: caliculus gustatorius, gustatory bud, Schwalbe's corpuscle, taste bulb, taste corpuscle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gustatory cells | Darkly staining cell's in a taste bud that appear to have extending into the gustatory pore long hair-like microvilli containing a number of closely packed microtubules; the taste cell's stand in synaptic contact with sensory nerve fibres of the facial, glossopharyngeal, or vagus nerves. Synonym: gustatory cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gustatory hallucination | The sensation of taste in the absence of a gustatory stimulus; may be seen in temporal lobe epilepsy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gustatory hyperesthesia | Abnormal acuteness of the sense of taste. Synonym: gustatory hyperesthesia, oxygeusia. Origin: hyper-+ G. Geusis, taste (05 Mar 2000) |
| gustatory lemniscus | The uncrossed secondary-sensory fibre system ascending from the rhombencephalic gustatory nucleus to the parabrachial nuclei (rostral pontine level) and directly to the thalamic gustatory nucleus (ventral postero-medial nucleus, pars parvicellularis). (05 Mar 2000) |
| gustatory nucleus | See: rhombencephalic gustatory nucleus, thalamic gustatory nucleus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gustatory organ | Located in the papillae of the mucous membrane of the tongue, chiefly in the vallate papillae. Synonym: organum gustus, organ of taste. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gustatory pore | The minute opening of a taste bud on the surface of the oral mucosa through which the gustatory hairs of the specialised neuroepithelial gustatory cells project. Synonym: porus gustatorius, taste pore. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gustatory rhinorrhoea | Watery nasal discharge associated with stimulation of the sense of taste. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gustatory-sudorific reflex | Sweating, especially over the face, when chewing food. See: auriculotemporal nerve syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gustatory sweating syndrome | <syndrome> Localised flushing and sweating of the ear and cheek in response to eating. Synonym: Frey's syndrome, gustatory sweating syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |