nervous system
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| antiepileptic | not having seizures
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| aphasia | w/out ability to speak or communicate
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| cerebrovascular | blood flow to the brain
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| dementia | condition of being w/out the mind
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| electroencephalography | diagnostic procedure to record brain activity
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| hemiplegic | half paralyzed
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| hyperesthesia | heightened awareness to touch
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| hypoglossal | under the tongue
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| meningitis | inflammation of the linings of the brain
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| paresthesia | condition of abnormal sensations (tingling/burning)
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| HNP | herniated nucleus pulposus - slipped disk
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| seizure | epilept/o
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| speech | phas/o
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| largest part of brain | cerebr/o
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| blood vessel | vascul/o
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| mind, chin | ment/o
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| electricity | electr/o
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| brain | encephal/o
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| paralysis | pleg/o
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| sensation or feeling | esthes/o
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| tongue | gloss/o
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| protective membranes of the brain | meningi/o or mening/o
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| skull | crani/o
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| CVA | cerebrovascular accident
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| coma | deep state of unconsciousness
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| concussion | traumatic injury to brain
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| dementia | lessening of brain abilities
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| dyslexia | difficulty reading and writing
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| enchephalitis | inflammation of the brain
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| epilepsy | miss-firing of the brain
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| hematoma | hemat/o blood
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| word | lex/o
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| hydrocephalus | water on the brain
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| swallow | phagia
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| weakness | paresis
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| paralysis | plegia
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| speach | phasia
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| fainting | syncope (syncop/o)
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| meninges | pia mater, arachnoid, dura mater
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| thought, emotion | frontal lobe
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| sensory | parietal (high on the side)
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| hearing | temporal (ear area)
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| vision | occipital (very back)
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| relay station, processes and sent on | thalamus
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| endocrine and neurological function | hypothalamus
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| CSF | cerebrospinal fluid found in ventricles in the brain
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| fight or flight | sympathetic branch
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| rest and digest | parasympathetic branch
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| ALS or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | a w/out, myo muscle, troph/o development, -ic pertaining to, scler/o hard, -osis abnormal condition, process
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| MS multiple sclerosis | chronic progressive degenerative autoimmuine disease, body makes antibogies against myelin
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| TIA transient ischemic attack | mini-stroke comes and goes - lack of blood flow to brain
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| angiography | angi/o blood vessel, lymphatic vessel
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| doppler | high frequency sound waves - 2 dimensional
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| CAT scan | bony structures
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| MRI | soft tissues
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| myelography | myel/o bone marrow, spinal cord, myelin; inject die to look at structure
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| PET scan | positron emission tomography - uses radioactive substance that emits positrons (tom/o cut, slice, layer)
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| EEG | electroencephalography - procedure to record electrical activity of brain
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| Babinski's sign | test for neurological function
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| GCS | Glasgow coma scale - measures depth of coma
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| LP | lumbar puncture - to obtain cerebrospinal fluid(CSF) also called spinal tap
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| TENS | transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation
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| carotic endarterectomy | innermost artery surgical excision - to remove plaque from the carotid artery
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| surgical incision into scull | craniotomy
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