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med termiology terms
Nervous System
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Somno | Sleep |
| somnolent | asleep |
| Nervous System consists of | Brain, Spinal Cord, Nerves |
| Central Nervous system (CNS)consists of | Brain, spinal cord |
| Peripheral Nervous system (PNS)- pair of what? | 12 pairs of cranial nerves 31 pairs of spinal nerves |
| Ganglion | knot-like mass of nerve tissue outside of CNS |
| Afferent nerves | sensory - carries impulses from body to CNS |
| Efferent nerves | motor - carries impulses from CNS to muscles and glands |
| Dendrites | brand out of cell body like trees. Sends impulses toward cell body. Where stimulus begins. |
| Synapse | space between axon of neurons and dendrites of the next. Tells you to move. |
| aphasia | inability to communicate |
| dysphasia | difficult speech |
| gyrus | one of the folds on the brain. plural - gyri |
| hypothalmus | controls temperature, sleep and appetite. |
| syncope | fainting |
| amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) | weakening and wasting of muscle groups.Begins with hands and travels up and then to legs. Caused by decreased nerve innervation of the muscle groups. |
| anencephaly | no brain or spinal cord at birth. congenital. |
| Bell's Palsy | unilateral weakness or paralysis of the facial muscles. Causes - trauma, unknown infection or tumor. |
| carpal tunnel syndrome | pinching or compression of the median nerve within the carpal tunnel due to inflammation and swelling of the tendons. Pain greatest at night. |
| cerebrovascular accident (CVA) | stroke |
| epilepsy | Seizure |
| Multiple sclerosis (MS) | degenerative inflammatory disease of the CNS. Attacks myelin sheath in the spinal cord and brain leaving it sclerosed or scarred. Interrupts the flow of nerve impulses |
| Nerves | bundles of dendrites and axons that travel together. |
| ganglioneuroma | tumor of nerve tissue outside the brain. |
| Parkinson's disease | Degenerative. Deterioration of nerves in the brain stem's motor system. Gradual onset of symptoms. |
| Meningocele | Swelling or herniation of the meninges. Cyst-like sac covered with skin or thin membrane protruding through the bony defect in the vertebrae containing meninges and CFS. |
| meningomyelocele | hernia of spinal cord and meninges. |
| ALS | amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
| MS | multiple sclerosis |
| CVA | cerebrovascular accident - stroke |
| Peripheral Nervous System consists of -- | Afferent (sensory) and Efferent (motor). Nerves and Ganglion. |
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