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Neuro Function

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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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