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Bryz MT/NAR Chap 10
Medical Terminology/NAR Chapter 10 Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Absence seizure | When a person has minor symptoms or an absent appearance (also known as petit mal) |
| Alzheimer's | Deterioration of the brain affecting memory and reasoning |
| Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | Lou Gehrig’s disease. Motor neurons progressively deteriorate |
| Anxiety disorders | unreasonable and excessive worrying |
| Anxiolytic drug | medication that inhibits anxiety |
| Aphasia | loss of ability to understand or express speech |
| Autism | mental condition with difficulty communicating and forming relationships with other people |
| Bell's palsy | paralysis of the facial nerves |
| Cerebral contusion | brain bruise |
| Cerebral hemispheres | What the cerebrum is subdivided into |
| Cerebral palsy | Motor impairment resulting from brain damage in an infant or young child regardless of the cause or the effect on the child. |
| Cerebrovascular accident (stroke) | When the oxygenated blood supply to the brain is interrupted either by a blockage or leakage |
| Cerebrum | largest portion of the brain and consists of two hemispheres |
| Cognition | mental action of acquiring knowledge |
| Cognitive therapy | Type of psychotherapy in which negative patterns of thought about the self and world are challenged |
| Delirium tremens | sudden severe mental changes due to alcohol withdrawal |
| Drug overdose | a drug or other substance ingested or applied in greater quantities than what is recommended |
| Electroencephalography | recording the electrical activity of the brain |
| Encephalitis | inflammation of brain cells/tissues |
| Epidural anesthesia | pain medication injected into the epidural space around the spinal cord |
| Epilepsy | seizure disorder |
| Factitious disorder | person acts like they have an illness when they really do not |
| Hemorrhagic stroke | bleeding stroke |
| Insomnia | inability to sleep |
| Ischemic stroke | blockage stroke |
| Learning disabilities | neurologically-based processing problems |
| Lethargy | lack of energy and enthusiasm |
| Malingering | exaggerate or fake an illness to escape work |
| Migraine | intense throbbing, pulsating pain |
| Multiple personality disorder | person's identity is fragmented into two or more distinct personality states |
| Multiple sclerosis | most common disorder where nerve fibers demyelinate. |
| Narcolepsy | chronic condition of falling asleep at abnormal times |
| Neurotomy | Surgically cutting into a nerve |
| Neurotransmitters | chemicals which assist or inhibit the transmission of a stimulus across a synapse |
| Paresthesia | abnormal sensation |
| Parkinson's disease | degeneration of neurons cause abnormal movements |
| Post-traumatic stress disorder | reliving significant trauma |
| Psychiatrist | medical specialty concerned with mental, emotional, behavioral disorders |
| Schizophrenia | psychotic disorder characterized by withdrawal from reality, illogical patterns of thinking, delusions, and hallucinations, as well as other disturbances |
| Sedative | drug that promotes calm or induces sleep |
| Shaken baby syndrome | baby is violently shaken causing brain and bone damage |
| Stimulant | substance that raises levels of physiological or nervous activity in the body |
| Stupor | state of near-unconsciousness or insensibility |
| Sympathetic nerves | control automatic body functions |
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