Bell's palsy
facial paralysis resulting from dysfunction in the cranial nerve VII (facial nerve)
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Summary
Bell's palsy is a class of disease[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of class of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,870 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: symptom or sign[3]
- Named after: Charles Bell[4]
- Subclass of: facial paralysis[5], palsy[6]
- Commons category: Bell's palsy[7]
- ICPC 2 ID: N91[8]
- Prevalence: 0.015[9]
- Described by source: The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2009)[10]
- ICD-9-CM: 351.0[11]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C26769[12]
- Health specialty: neurology[13]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_12506[14], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:12506[15]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[16]
- WordLift URL: http://data.wordlift.io/wl01714/entity/bells-palsy.html[17]
- P14541: 24vK3s[18]
Why It Matters
Bell's palsy has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 67 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]