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Chapter 10- nerv sys
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Acrophobia | Extreme or irrational fear of heights. |
| Alzheimer's disease | Progressive mental deterioration that can occur in middle or old age, due to generalized degeneration of the brain. It is the most common cause of premature senility |
| Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | A progressive degeneration of the motor neurons of the central nervous system, leading to wasting of the muscles and paralysis |
| Anesthetic | A substance that induces insensitivity to pain |
| Anesthetist | A medical specialist who administers anesthetics |
| Anxiety disorder | A group of mental disorders or conditions characterized in part by chronic feelings of fear, excessive and obsessive worrying, restlessness, and panic attacks. ... |
| Autism | A mental condition in which fantasy dominates over reality, as a symptom of schizophrenia and other disorders |
| Bell's palsy | Paralysis of the facial nerve, causing muscular weakness in one side of the face |
| Carotid ultrasonography | ultrasound-based diagnostic imaging technique to look for blood clots, atherosclerotic plaque buildup, and other blood flow problems in the carotid arteries. |
| Causalgia | Severe burning pain in a limb caused by injury to a peripheral nerve |
| Cerebral contusion | A bruising of brain tissue as a result of a head injury. |
| Cerebral palsy | A condition marked by impaired muscle coordination (spastic paralysis) and/or other disabilities, typically caused by damage to the brain before or at birth |
| Cerebrovascular accident | damage to the brain that occurs when the blood flow to the brain is disrupted; also known as a stroke |
| Cervical radiculopathy | nerve pain caused by pressure on the spinal nerve roots in the neck region |
| Claustrophobia | fear of enclosed or narrow spaces |
| Cognition | all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating |
| Coma | state of profound unconsciousness |
| Concussion | injury to the brain resulting from an impact with an object |
| Cranial hematoma | a collection of blood trapped in the tissues of the brain |
| Delirium | mental disorder marked by confusion |
| Delusion | a false belief or opinion |
| Dementia | a slowly progressive decline in mental abilities, including memory, thinking, and judgment, that is often accompanied by personality changes |
| Dura mater | outer covering of brain and spinal cord |
| Dyslexia | impairment of the ability to read |
| Echoencephalography | Visual record of brain activity |
| Electroencephalography | process of taking a picture of the brain using electricity |
| Encephalitis | Inflammation of the brain |
| Epidural anesthesia | injection of a local anesthetic into the epidural space of the spinal cord |
| Epilepsy | disorder affecting the central nervous system, characterized by recurrent seizures |
| Factitious disorder | a condition in which individuals act as if they have a physical or mental illness when they are not really sick |
| Guillian-barre syndrome | (GBS) is an inflammatory disorder of the peripheral nerves. The peripheral nerves convey sensory information (e.g., pain, temperature) from the body to the brain and motor (i.e., movement) signals from the brain to the body. |
| Hallucination | delusion; false idea; false perception of objects with a compelling sense of their reality |
| Hemmorrhagic stroke | caused by a blood vessel that breaks and bleeds in the brain |
| Hydrocephalus | abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the ventricles of the brain as a result of developmental anomalies, infection, injury, or tumor |
| Hyperesthesia | increased sensitivity to stimulation such as touch or pain |
| Hypochondriasis | a condition characterized by misinterpretation of physical symptoms and fearing that one has a serious illness despite appropriate medical evaluation and reassurance |
| Ischemic stroke | a type of stroke that occurs when the flow of blood to the brain is blocked |
| Lethargy | lack of energy; sluggishness |
| meningitis | an inflammation of the meninges of the brain or spinal cord |
| meningocele | herniation of the meninges |
| migraine headache | a headache characterized by throbbing pain on one side of the head |
| multiple sclerosis | A chronic disease of the central nervous system marked by damage to the myelin sheath. Plaques occur in the brain and spinal cord causing tremor, weakness, incoordination, paresthesia, and disturbances in vision and speech |
| myelitis | an inflammation of the spinal cord; also inflammation of bone marrow |
| myelography | examination of the spinal cord after injection of dye |
| narcolepsy | attacks of sleep |
| neurotransmitters | chemical messengers that traverse the synaptic gaps between neurons |
| obsessive compulsive disorder | is an anxiety disorder and is characterized by recurrent, unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and/or repetitive behaviors (compulsions). |
| panic attack | Anxiety disorders characterized as acute anxiety, accompanied by sharp increases in autonomic nervous system arousal, that is not triggered by a specific event. |
| paresthesia | abnormal sensation of numbness and tingling without objective cause |
| parkinson's disease | a progressive disease that destroys brain cells and is identified by muscular tremors, slowing of movement, and partial facial paralysis |
| peripheral neuropathy | a painful condition of the nerves of the hands and feet due to damage to the peripheral nerves; also known as peripheral neuritis |
| posttraumatic stress disorder | Disturbed behavior that is attributed to a major stressful event but that emerges after the stress is over. |
| reye's syndrome | vomiting and swelling of the brain in children (maybe caused by aspirin intake during sickness) |
| schizophrenia | A mental illness, a condition of losing touch with reality accompanied by reduced ability to function. |
| sciatica | severe pain in the leg along the course of the sciatic nerve |
| shaken baby syndrome | the results of a child being violently shaken by someone |
| syncope | fainting |
| trichotillomania | a disorder characterized by the repeated pulling out of one's own hair |
| trigeminal neuralgia | Pain in the trigeminal nerve |
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