- acousticofacial ganglion
- a ganglion of early embryonic life, a portion of which persists as the geniculate ganglion.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
acousticofacial ganglion
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Ganglion — The celebrated 2nd century Greek physician Galen ((c. 130 201 A.D.) who lived and worked in Rome first used the word ganglion to denote a nerve complex. Ganglion still is used to refer to an aggregation of nerve cell bodies. Another use of the… … Medical dictionary
