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median
(redirected from median nerve)

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Bending the wrist back even a little causes pressure on the median nerve, resulting in pain.
The executioners would know that a nail through the palm would simply tear out when the weight of the body was put on it; so as the shroud shows, they hammered between the small bones of the wrist, damaging or cutting the median nerve to the hand.
Less common sites of involvement are the paranasal sinuses, kidneys, orbits, eyelids, (7) conjunctiva, (8) lacrimal glands, (9) epiglottis, (10) tympanic membrane, (11) and even the median nerve.
 
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