Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
HA C23
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Agnosia | Loss of ability to recognize importance of sensory impression |
| Agraphia | Loss of ability to express thoughts in writing |
| Amnesia | Loss of memory |
| Analgesia | Loss of pain sensation |
| Aphasia | Loss of power of expression by speech, writing, or signs, or loss of comprehension of spoken or written language |
| Apraxia | Loss of ability to perform purposeful movements in the absence of sensory or motor damage |
| Ataxia | inability to perform coordinated movements |
| Athetosis | Bizarre, slow, twisting, writhing movement, resembling a snake or worm |
| Chorea | sudden, rapid, jerky, purposeless movement involving limbs, trunk, or face |
| Clonus | Rapidly alternating involuntary contraction and relaxation of a muscle in response to sudden stretch |
| Coma | State of profound unconsciousness from which a person cannot be aroused |
| Decerbrate rigidity | Arms stiffly extended, adducted, internally rotated, legs stiffly extended, plantar-flexed |
| Decorticate rigidity | arms adducted and flexed |
| Dysarthria | imperfect articulation of speech due to problems of muscular control resulting from central or peripheral nervous system damage |
| Dysphasia | impairment in speech consisting of lack of coordination and inability to arrange words in their proper order |
| Extinction | Disappearance of conditioned response |
| Fasciculation | Rapid continuous twitching of resting muscle without movement of limb |
| Flaccidity | loss of muscle tone, limp |
| Graphesthesia | Ability to read a number by having it traced on the skin |
| Hemiplegia | Loss of motor power on one side of the body |
| Lower motor neurons | Motor neuron in the peripheral nervous system with its nerve fiber extending out to the muscle and only its cell body in the central nervous system |
| Myoclonus | Rapid sudden jerk of a muscle |
| Nuchal rigidity | stiffness in cervical neck area |
| Nystagmus | back and forth oscillation of the eyes |
| Opisthotonos | prolonged arching of back |
| paralysis | decreased or loss of motor function due to problem with motor nerve or muscle fibers |
| paraplegia | impairment or loss of motor and/or sensory function in the lower half of the body |
| Paresthesia | abnormal sensation |
| Point localization | ability of the person to discriminate exactly where they are being touched |
| Proprioception | sensory information concerning body movements and position of the body in space |
| Spasticity | continuous resistance to stretching by a muscle due to abnormally increased tension |
| Stereognosis | ability to recognize objects by feeling their form, size, and weight while the eyes are closed |
| Tic | repetitive twitching of a muscle group at inappropriate times |
| Tremor | involuntary contraction of opposing muscle groups resulting in rhythmic movement of one or more joints |
| two-point discrimination | ability to distinguish the separation of two simultaneous pinpricks on the skin |
| Upper motor neurons | nerve located entirely within the central nervous system |
Created by:
aleahgoodson
Popular Nursing sets