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Med. Term Chapter 14
Health Tech.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| cerebell | cerebellum |
| Cerber/o | cerebrum |
| enchphal | brain |
| medull | medulla oblongata |
| mening | meninges |
| myel | spinal cord |
| neur | nerve |
| pont | pons |
| thalam | thalmus |
| cepal | head |
| electr | electricity |
| hemat | blood |
| hydr | water |
| lumb | low back |
| my | muscle |
| cler | hardening |
| spin | spine |
| vascul | blood vessels |
| alzheimer disease | Chronic brain condition involving progressive disorientationk, speech and grait disturbances, and loss of memory |
| amyotrophic later sclerosis (ALS) | Disease with muscular weakness and atrophy due to degeneration of motor neurons os spinal cord; commonly called LOU Gehrig disease |
| anticovulsant | medication to reduce excitability of neurons and to prevent uncontrolled neuron acvivity associated with seizures |
| brain tumor | intracranial mass, either benign or malignant; benign tumor of brain can still be fatal because it will grow and cause pressure on normal brain tissue |
| cerebral contusion | bruising of brain from impact; symptoms last longer that 24 hours and include unconsciousness dizzines, bomiting, unequal, pupil size, and shock |
| cebebral palsy | nonprogressive brain damage resulting from defect in fetal development or trauma or oxygen deprivation at time of birth |
| ceberospinal fluid analysis | laboratory examination of clear, watery, colorless fluid from within brain and spinal cord, detects infections or bleeding of brain |
| cerebrovascular accident (CVA) | development of brain infact due to loss in blood supply to brain; can be caused by ruptured blood vessel (hemorrhage), floating clot (embolus) stationary clot (thrombosis) or compression; extent of damage depends on size and location of infact and can inc |
| coma | profound unconsciousnes or stupor resulting from illness or injury |
| concussion | injury to brain when breain is shaken inside skull because of impact; symptoms last 24 hours or less and can include dizziness, vomiting, unequal size and shock |
| dementia | progressive impairment of intellectual function that interferes with performing activiteis of dailty living |
| epilepsy | recurrent disorder of brain; seizures and loss of consciousness occur as result of uncontrolled neuron electrical activity |
| hydrocephalus | buidldup of cebrospinal fluid within brain, if congential causes head to enlarge, treated by creating shunt ffrom brain to abdomen to drain excess fluid |
| lumbar puncture | puncture with needle into lumbar vertebral area(usually fourth and fifth lumar vertebrae to withdraw fluid for examination or for injection of medication also called spinal punctue or spinal tap. |
| migraine | specific type of headache characterized by severe head pain, sensitivity to light dizziness, and nausea |
| multiple sclerosis (MS) | inflammatory autoimmune disease of CNS; immune system damages myelin around neurons and results in extreme weakness and numbness |
| myasthenia gravis | autoimmune disease with severe muscular weakness and fatigue due to difficulty of electrical impulse passing across synapse from one nerve to another |
| paralysis | temporary or permanent loss of muscle function and movement |
| parkinson disease | chronic disorder of th enervous system with fine tremors, muscular weaknes, rigidity, and shuffling gait |
| positron emission tomography (PET) | use of positive readionuclides to reconstruct brain sections; measurment o oxygen and glucose uptake, cebral flood flow, and blood volume can be taken; amt of glucose brain uses indicates its metabloic activity |
| seizure | sudeen uncontroable onset of symptoms; such as in epileptic seiazure; absence seizure appears as loss of awareness and absence of activity; tonic-clonic seizure is characterized by muscle convulstion |
| shingles | eruption of painful blisters on the body along nerve path; though to be caused baricella zoster virus infection of nerve root also called herpes zoster |
| spina bifida | congenital defect in walls of spinal canal in which two sides of vert do not meet or close; can result in meningocele or myelomeningocele |
| spinal cord injury | damage to spinal cord a result of trauma; spinal cord can be bruised or completely severed |
| subdural hematoma | mass of blood forming underneath dura mater when meninges are torn by trauma; can exert fatal pressure on brain if hematoma is not drained by surgery |
| syncope | fainting |
| transient ischemic attack(TIA) | temporary reduction of blood supply to brain; causes symptoms such as syncope, numbness, and hemiplegia; can eventually lead to cerebrovasuclar accident |
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