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Nervous system
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Part of the brain responsible for coordinating muscle movements and maintaining balance: | Cerebellum |
| Pertaining to muscles and nerves: | Myoneural |
| Neurotransmitter: | Acetylcholine |
| Part of the nerve cell that forst recieves the nervous impulse is the: | Dendrite |
| Elevated portions of the cerebral cortex are called: | Gyri |
| Burning sensation of pain: | Causalgia |
| A network of interacting nerve fibers in the peripheral nervous system: | Plexus |
| Portion of the brain that controls the pituitary gland, water balance, and body temperature: | Hypothalamus |
| Glial cells: | Astrocytes |
| Space between nerve cells is called the: | Synapse |
| Part of the brian that controls breathing, heartbeat, and the size of the blood vessels: | Medulla oblongata |
| Inability to speak: | Aphasia |
| Collection of spinal nerves below the end of the spinal cord: | Cauda equina |
| Disease of spinal cord: | Myelopathy |
| Collection of blood within the meningeal layers: | Subdural hematoma |
| Abnormal sensation of tingling or prickling: | Paresthesia |
| Inflammation of a spinal nerve root: | Radiculitis |
| A highly malignant brain tumor: | Glioblastoma |
| Paralysis of four extremities: | Quadriplegia |
| Cerebral aneurysm, thrombosis, or hemorrhage can be the cause of: | Cerebrovascular accident |
| Fainting: | Syncope |
| Spina bifida is associated with: | Myelomeningocele |
| Parkinson disease is characterized by: | Shuffling gait |
| Disorder of reading, writing, and learning is: | Dyslexia |
| Condition of no nervous sensation: | Anesthesia |
| Three protective membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord: | Meninges |
| Microscopic fiber that carries the nervous impulse along a nerve cell: | Axon |
| A large, interlacing network of nerves: | Plexus |
| Branching fiber that is first part of a neuron to recieve a nervous impulse: | Dendrite |
| Protective fatty tissue that surrounds the axon of a nerve cell: | Myelin sheath |
| Collection of spinal nerves below the end of the spinal cord: | Caudia equina |
| Outer region of the largest part of the brain; composed of gray matter: | Cerebral cortex |
| Dura mater: | Thick outter most layer of the meninges. |
| Synapse: | Soace through a nervous impulse is transmitted from neuron to neuron |
| Medulla oblongata: | Above the spinal cord |
| Hypothalamus: | Beneath thalamus |
| Carries messages toward the brain from the receptors: | Sensory nerve |
| Essential cell of the nervous system; a neuron: | Parenchymal cell |
| Innermost meningeal membrane: | Pia mater |
| Elevations in the cerebral cortex: | Gyri |
| Acetylcholine is an examole of this chemical released into a synapse: | Neurotransmitter |
| Contains cerebrospinal fluid: | Subarachnoid space |
| Encephal/o | Brain |
| Kines/o | Movement |
| Mening/o | Meninges |
| Neur/o | Nerve |
| My/o | Muscle |
| Vag/o | Vagus nerve |
| Radicul/o | Nerve root |
| Tax/o | Order |
| Myel/o | Spinal cord |
| Esthesi/o | Nervous sensation |
| Quadri- | Four |
| Hypo- | Below |
| Hemi- | Half |
| Poly- | Many |
| Sub- | Under, below |
| Micro- | Small |
| Hyper- | Above |
| Dys- | Bad |
| Epi- | Above |
| Para- | Near |
| -algesia | Sensitive to pain |
| -paresis | Weakness |
| -phasia | Speech |
| -ptosis | Falling; drooping |
| -sclerosis | Hardening |
| -plegia | Paralysis |
| -sthenia | Strength |
| -praxia | Action |
| -blast | Immature cell |
| -cele | Hernia |
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