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medical terminology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jerky movements that is random and rapid | Chorea |
| Postures are distored, repetitive, twisted movements, Involuntary muscle contractions | Dystonia |
| Slowness of movements and speed | Bradykinesia |
| Reflexive abnormal motor movements in response to a tendon stretch | Clonus |
| jerk or clicking muscle motions | Cogwheel rigidity |
| general motor restlessness and the urge for continuous movement | Akathesia |
| Writhing movements | Athetosis |
| both chorea and athetosis are present | Choreoathetosis |
| Ability to move the eyes in a synchronized and precise fashion between two visual points | Saccades |
| Ability to coordinate the eyes and the hands to execute precise movements | Visual motor skills |
| Ability to maintain the correct posture and arm position during handwriting | Proximal Stability |
| (motor planning) Ability of the brain to plan an action and then send signals to the body to carry out the action | Praxis |
| (Kinesthesia) Ability to sense the body's position in relation to itself | Proprioceptive processing |
| Ability to sense the body's position in relation to its surroundings | Vestibular processing |
| Difficulty controlling the muscles used for speech | Dysarthria |
| difficulty swallowing | Dysphagia |
| Double vision -loss of vision - increase fall risk | Diplopia |
| blindness in one half of the visual field of one or both eyes | Hemianopsia |
| Partial displacement/ dislocation | Shoulder subluxation |
| Expressive aphasia -broken speech - patient is aware of deficits | Broca's aphasia |
| Receptive aphasia - Inability to understand spoken words - Patient is unaware of deficits | Wernicke's aphasia |
| - Most severe form - All language impaired (Expressive, Receptive, Reading, and Writing) | Global aphasia |
| Slower than normal heart rate ( less than 60 bpm) | Bradycardia |
| Faster than normal heart rate ( greater than 100 bpm) | Tachycardia |
| Paralysis on one side of the body | Hemiplegia |
| Weakness on one side of the body | Hemiparesis |
| Abnormal motor movement due to impaired central nervous system | Spasticity |
| Surgical procedure used to rebuild or replace a synovial joint | Arthroplasty |
| Endoscopic surgical procedure used to examine | Arthroscopy |
| Language Impairment | Aphasia |
| Misaligned eyes | Strabismus |
| Potentially fatal formation of a blood clot most often in the calf area | Deep vein thrombosis |
| Inability to control the distance, speed, and range of motion needed to perform smoothly coordinated movements | Dysmetria |
| Goes past objects when reaching | Overshoot Dsymetria |
| Miss objects due to not reaching far enough out for it | Undershoot Dsymetria |
| Shortening of the first dorsal compartment of the wrist | De Quervain's Syndrome |
| Back portion of the body | Dorsal |
| Shortness of breath | Dsypnea |
| Relating to the palm of the hand or sole of foot | Volar |
| Motor planning challenges | Dsypraxia |
| Awareness of body scheme and body parts | Sqmatognosia |
| Ability to identify the shape and form of 3 dimensional objects | Stereognosis |
| inability to judge the form of an object by touch | astereognosis |
| Motor dysfunction secondary to a lesion of the basal ganglia where during slow PROM, constant resistance is felt throughout; common symptom of Parkinson's disease | Lead pipe rigidity |
| muscle tension that intermittently halts movement as an examiner attempts to manipulate a limb | cogwheel rigidity |
| difficulty conceptualizing planned, multistep movements | Ideational apraxia |
| inability to correctly imitate hand gestures and voluntarily mime tool use | Ideomotor apraxia |
| sudden loss of muscle tone while someone is awake; seen in narcolepsy | Cataplexy |
| muscle tone disorder resulting in stiff or inflexible muscles | Rigidity |
| lack of coordination with voluntary movements (coordination disorder) | Ataxia |
| muscle jerks and twitches; can be mild/severe, slow/quick, rhythmic/nonrhythmic; appears the same as tics physically | Myoclonus |
| poor insight or denial of one's own disabilities | Anosognosia |
| overgrowth or deposit of bone in soft tissues which may affect movement | Heterotopic ossification |
| body scheme disorder characterized by decreased awareness of body structure and recognition of one's own body parts and their relationship to each other | Somatoagnosia |
| Bone infection | Osteomyelitis |
| Infection entering the bloodstream | Sepsis |
| Lack of oxygen to the brain | Anoxia |
| Can't remember what happened before accident | Retrograde Amnesia |
| Inability to remember new things | Anterograde Amnesia |
| Decreased ability to complete rapid, alternating movements | Dysdiadochokinesis |
| Violet, Involuntary flinging movements on one side of the body | Hemiballismus |
| Sensation of "pins and needles" | Parasthesia |
| Loss of consciousness | Syncope |
| Ability to see 3 dimensional objects and perceive depth | Stereopsis |
| Drooping eyelid | Ptosis |
| ability to recognize familiar objects by touch with vision occluded | Tactile gnosis |
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