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med term wk 12
Medical Terminology A Living Language
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| alges/o | sense of pain |
| what are the primary structures of the nervous system? | brain, spinal cord, nerves |
| astr/o | star |
| cephal/o | head |
| cerebell/o | cerebellum |
| cerebr/o | cerebrum |
| clon/o | rapid contracting and relaxing |
| dur/o | dura mater |
| encephal/o | brain |
| esthes/o | sensation, feeling |
| gli/o | glue |
| medull/o | medulla oblongata |
| mening/o | meninges |
| meningi/o | meninges |
| myel/o | spinal cord |
| neur/o | nerve |
| poli/o | gray matter |
| pont/o | pons |
| radicul/o | nerve root |
| thalam/o | thalamus |
| thec/o | sheath (meninges) |
| ton/o | tone |
| ventricul/o | ventricle |
| -paresis | weakness |
| -phagia | speech |
| -plegia | paralysis |
| -taxia | muscle coordination |
| -trophic | pertaining to development |
| what are the three parts of a neuron? | dendrites, nerve cell body, axon |
| what would you call the area which is unsheathed dendrites or cell bodys | gray matter |
| what would you call myelinated nerve fibers? | white matter |
| what is the term for the interconnecting different parts of the CNS? | tracts |
| what is the term for the three membranes which encase the CNS? | meninges |
| what are the four sections of the brain? | cerebrum, cerebellum, diencephalon, brain stem |
| what is the outer layer of the cerebrum called? | cerebral cortex |
| what are the elevated portions of the cerebrum called? | convolutions or gyri |
| what are the fissures of the cerebrum called? | valleys or sulci |
| where are the thalamus and hypothalamus located? | diencephalon |
| which area of the nervous system does the hypothalamus control? | autonomic nervous system |
| which area of the brain controls pain perception? | thalamus |
| what does the cerebellum do for the body | balance, coordination, voluntary body movements |
| what are the three components of the brain stem? | midbrain, pons, medulla oblongata |
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