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Neuro Function
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| APHASIA | THE ABSENCE OF LANGUAGE |
| CEREBROVASCULAR | PERTAINING TO THE BLOOD VESSELS OF THE CEREBRUM OR BRAIN |
| CONTRACTURES | ABNORMAL ACCUMMULATION OF FIBROUS CONNECTIVE TISSUE IN THE SKIN, MUSCLES, OR JOINTS CAPSULE THAT PREVENTS NORMAL MOBILITY AT THAT SITE |
| DECEREBRATE | LACKING A CEREBRUM OR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN CEREBRUM AND LOWER PORTIONS OF THE CNS. THE aRMS ARE INTERNALLY ROTATED AND THE UPPER AND LOWER EXTREMITIES ARE EXTENDED |
| DECORTICATE | POSTURE WITH A LESION AT OR ABOVE THE UPPER BRAIN STEM. THERE IS FLEXION OF THE ARMS AT THE ELBOW. |
| NYSTAGMUS | INVOLUNTARY, RAPID, RHYTHIC EYE MOVEMENT. |
| PARESIS | WEAKNESS, INCOMPLETE PARALYSIS |
| SUBARACHNOID | BELOW OR UNDER THE ARACHNOID MEMBRANE AND THE PIA MATER OF THE COVERING OF THE BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD. |
| ATAXIA | FAILURE OF MUSCULAR COORDINATION IRREGULARITY OF MUSCULAR ACTION |
| CRANIECTOMY | EXCISION OF A SEGMENT OF THE SKULL |
| CRANIOPLASTY | ANY PLASTIC REPAIR OPERATION ON THE SKULL |
| CRANIOTOMY | ANY INCISION THROUGH THE CRANIUM. |
| ENCEPHALITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE BRAIN. |
| ENCEPHALOPATHY | DYSFUNCTION OF THE BRAIN |
| HEMIPARESIS | WEAKNESS, AFFECTING ONE SIDE OF THE BODY. |
| HYDROCEPHALUS | WATER ON THE BRAIN |
| LAMINECTOMY | THE EXCISION OF A VERTEBRAL POSTERIOR ARCH, USUALLY TO REMOVE A LESION OR HERNIATED DISK. |
| MENINGITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD . |
| NUCHAL RIGIDITY | RIGIDITY OF THE NAPE,BACK, OF THE NECK. CLASSIC SIGNS MENINGITIS ( PAIN AND STIFFNESS WHEN NECK IS MOVED.) |
| PARAPARESIS | PARTIAL PARALYSIS OF THE LOWER EXTREMITIES. |
| PHOTOPHOBIA | ABNORMAL VISUAL INTOLERANCE TO LIGHT. ( MENINGITIS) |
| POSTICTAL | A SUDDEN ATTACK, SUCH AS AN EPILEPTIC SEIZURE |
| PRODROMAL | PERTAINING TO EARLY SYMPTOMS THAT MAY MARK THE ONSET OF A DISEASE. |
| QUADRIPARESIS | WEAKNESS, INVOLVING ALL FOUR LIMBS. |
| QUADRIPLEGIA | PARALSIS OF ALL FOUR LIMBS |
| ENDARTECTOMY | EXCISION OF THICKENED ATHEROMATOUS AREAS OF THE INNERMOST COAT OF AN ARTERY |
| DIPLOPIA | DOUBLE VISION |
| BLEPHARITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE GLANDS AND LASH FOLLICLES ALONG THE EYELIDS |
| CHALAZION | A SMALL EYELID MASS RESULTING FROM CHRONIC INFLAMMATION OF A MEIBOMIAN GLAND |
| CONJUNCTIVITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE CONJUNTIVA OF THE EYE. |
| ENUCLEATION | REMOVAL OF AN ORGAN OR OTHERS MASS INTACT FROM ITS SUPPORTING TISSUES. |
| EXTERNAL OTITIS | SWIMMERS EAR. INFLAMMATION OF THE EXTERNAL EAR. |
| GLAUCOMA | EYE DISEASE CHARACTERIZED BY INCREASE INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE. |
| MACULAR | A GRAY SCAR ON THE CORNEA THAT IS VISBLE WITHOUT MAGNIFICATION. |
| MYRINGOPLASTY | SURGICAL RECONSTRUCTION OF THE TYMPANIC MEMBRANE |
| MIOTICS | AN AGENT THAT CAUSES THE PUPIL TO CONTRACT. |
| OTOSCLEROSIS | IS A CHRONIC, PROGRESSIVE DEAFNESS, ESPECIALLY FOR LOW TONES. |
| PRESBYCUSIS | PROGRESSEIVE, PERCEPTIVE HEARING LOSS OCCURING WITH AGE. |
| SENSORINEURAL | HEARING LOSS CAUSED BY IMPAIRMENT OF A SENSORY NERVE. |
| STAPEDECTOMY | EXCISION OF THE STAPES IN ORDER TO IMPROVE HEARING, ESPECIALLY IN CASES OF OTOSCLEROSIS. |
| EXPRESSIVE APHASIA | DIFFICULTY OR INABILITY TO VERBALLY COMMINCATE WITH OTHERS. ( USE PICTURE OR BOARD TO COMMUNICATE) |
| RECEPTIVE APHASIA | AFFECTS PT'S ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND SPOKEN LANGUAGE. ( USES GESTURES OR FACIAL EXPRESSIONS) |
| ISCHEMIA | INSUFFICIENT SUPPLY OF BLOOD TO AN ORGAN. |
| TIA | IS A TEMPORARY IMPAIRMENT OF THE CEREBRAL CIRCULATION CAUSING NEUROLOGICAL IMPAIRMENT THAT FOR 24 HOURS |
| CVA | IS THE INFARTION(DEATH) OF THE BRAIN TISSUES CAUSED BY THE DISRUPTION OF BLOOD FLOW TO THE BRAIN. |
| CREAMY YELLOW | STAPHYLOCOCCUS |
| BEIGE AND FISHY ODOR | PROTEUS |
| GREEN-BLUE WITH FRUITY ODOR | PSUEDOMONAS |
| BROWN WITH FECAL ODOR | BACTEROIDES |
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