Term | Definition |
cerebr/o | largest parts of brain |
encephal/o | entire brain |
esthesi/o | sensation |
gangli/o | ganglion (knot) |
gnos/o | knowing |
somn/i | sleep |
somn/o | sleep |
lex/o | word or phrase |
phas/o | speech |
somat/o | body |
tax/o | order or cordination |
thalam/o | thalamus (a room) |
-asthenia | weakness |
-mania | condition of abnormal impulse toward |
frontal lobe | responsible for personality |
temporal lobe | responsible for hearing, taste, and smell |
thalamus (diencephalon) | relay sensory for infor to cortext |
cerebellum | control and cordination of skeletal muscles |
brainstem | responsible for breathing, heart rate, and body temperature |
meninges | three membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord |
spinal nerves | 31 pairs of nerves arising from the spinal cord |
motor nerves | nerves that conduct motor impulses from the brain to muscles and glands |
aphasia | condition without speech |
dysphasia | difficulty speaking |
coma | decreased consciousness |
delirium | state of mental confusion due to disturbances in cerebral function |
motor dificit | loss or impairment of muscle function |
neuralgia | pain along the course of a nerve |
hemiparesis | partial paralysis of the right or left half of the body |
syncope | fainting |
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | Lou Gehrig disease |
Alzheimer disease | irreversible deterioration |
cerebral palsy | damage to the cerebrum during development or injury at birth |
verbrovascular accident stroke | damage to the brain caused be cerebrovascular disease |
transient ischemic attack | often precedes a CVA |
epilepsy | disorder affecting the cetral nervous system characterized by recurrent seizures |
tonic-clonic | previously termed grand mal (big bad) seizure |
herpe zoster | viral disease affecting the peripheral nerves. also know as shingles |
hydrocephalus
hydrocephaly | anoral accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the ventricles |
migrain headache | accompanied by disordered vision, nausea, and/or vomiting |
multiple sclerosis | characterized by the demyelination |
Parkinson disease | tremor, rigidity of muscles, and slow movemets usually occurring later in life. |