Having a bifid uvula means that the tissue that dangles in the back of the throat between the tonsils has two parts instead of one. This occurs in about 2 percent of the population and is ...

Aging-Related Causes You can have a deviated septum and not know it until you get older. It is estimated that up to 100% of ...

What Is Septoplasty (Deviated Septum Surgery)? Septoplasty is a nose surgery that straightens the wall of cartilage and bone between your two nostrils. That wall is called your septum, and when it ...

Inspect the soft palate for equal rise each side and for uvula (the fleshy extension at the back of the soft palate hanging above the throat) deviation. The uvula will deviate away from the side ...

Uvula was deviated to the left. No facial palsy or diplopia were observed. The symptoms subsided gradually after 3 hours. Clinical symptoms were attributed to glossopharyngeal nerve palsy.

This is a procedure that removes the uvula and nearby tissue to open up the airway," she explains. "If nasal septum deviation ...

For example, if you have a deviated nasal septum, swollen tonsils or adenoids, or a small lower jaw that causes your throat to be too narrow, surgery might help you. Doctors usually try other ...

One effect of this tilt is that the Sun’s apparent path in the sky as we see it, called the ecliptic, deviates over the course of a year, reaching 23½° north of the celestial equator at the ...

The square root of the variance is the standard deviation (SD or σ), which helps determine the consistency of an investment’s returns over time. Variance is a measurement of the spread between ...

On the second day of admission, he developed bilateral tongue weakness, nystagmus on left gaze and right palatial weakness with uvula deviation. He was noted to have a hypernasal voice, as well as ...

"In ruling otherwise, the district court deviated from binding Supreme Court precedent, misconstrued the statutes that authorized the special counsel's appointment, and took inadequate account of ...

The standard deviation measures the dispersion or variation of the values of a variable around its mean value (arithmetic mean). Put simply, the standard deviation is the average distance from the ...