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AMT Recall neuro
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| toward the head | |
| small head | |
| referring to brain | i |
| inflammation of brain | encephalitis |
| brain tumor | encephaloma |
| image of electrical activity of brain | electroencephalogram |
| brain disease | encephalopathy |
| Water head (increased fluid in ventricles of brain) | hydrocephalus/hydrocephaly |
| incision into skull | craniotomy |
| within the skull | intracranial |
| hard mother (outer meningeal layer) | dura mater |
| without sensation | anesthesia |
| pain reliev | analgesia |
| hypnotize | to make sleep |
| inflammation of gray mater of spinal cord | poliomyelitis |
| berry shaped bacterium causing inflammation fo membranes around brain | meningococcus |
| sleep seizure | narcolepsy |
| episodes of repeated seizures | epilepsy |
| nerve weakness | neurasthenia |
| nerve disease | neuropathy |
| protrusion of spinal cord and membare thru vertebral bones | myelomeningocele |
| polyneuritis | inflammaion of many nerves |
| beginning in nerves | neurogenic |
| on or around the dura mater, particularly an anesthetic introduced around the dura mater | epidural |
| situated or occurring between the dura mater and the arachnoid membrane of the brain and spinal cord | subdural |
| sleep walking | somnambulism |
| literally incision into spinal nerve root but literally cutting spinal nerve roots to relieve pain | rhizotomy |
| literally disease of spinal nerve root, but more specifically a condition where the nerves along spine are compressed leading to back pain | radiculopathy |
| Abnormally small head; congenital anomaly characterized by an abnormal smallness of the head in relation to the rest of the body | microcephaly |
| administering drugs directly into the spinal canal for anesthesia/pain management/chemotherapy | intrathecal |
| dysphasia | difficulty communicating |
| literally difficulty with words but specifically any reading disorder (difficulty with words) | dyslexia |
| paralyzed in one limb | monoplegia |
| a person who deals with the mind, may be a PHD doctor but not a physician so cannot prescribe medicine | psychologist |
| a medical doctor who specializes in mental disorders. | psychiatrist |
| inability to use familiar objects and carry out tasks despite having physical ability to perform them and the desire to perform; considered a disorder of motor planning | apraxia |
| inability to recognize familiar objects, persons, sounds, shapes, or smells while the specific sense is not defective and there is no associated memory loss | agnosia |
| rhythmic stiffening and jerking movements associated with epilepsy | grand mal seizure/tonic-clonic seizure |
| loss of memory; can be organic due to brain damage or psychological as a defense mechanism. | no memory |
| no coordingation | ataxia |
| paralyxed on one side | hemiplegia |
| result of being shaken violently | concussion |
| inability to sleep/fall asleep/remain sleeping | insomnia |
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