Arteriosclerotic Aortic Disease. Atherosclerosis is a major cause of abdominal aortic aneurysm and is the most common kind of arteriosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries. This disease process can be seen in any blood vessel in the body and is the cause of coronary artery disease, stroke, and peripheral arterial disease (PAD). How Atherosclerosis Develops
Evaluation, education or treatment locations: The fine white line surrounds the neural foramen or doorway through which the spinal nerves leave the spinal canal to spread out into the body.
It arises from the pons region of the brainstem, posterior to the abducens nerve (CN VI) and anterior to the vestibulocochlear nerve (CN VIII). The facial nerve travels from the pons through the facial canal in the temporal bone to exit the skull at the stylomastoid foramen. As the facial nerve passes through the temporal bone, several smaller nerves branch off from the main nerve, including the greater (superficial) petrosal nerve and the chorda tympani.