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Medical Terminology
The Nervous System-Neurology and Psychiatry
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| What does the Peripheral Nervous System collect? | Data |
| The Unified collection of cells in the brain and spine are known as the _____ ______ ______ | Central Nervous system |
| Greek for "Mind" | Psyche |
| Encephalo | Brain |
| Neuro | Nerves |
| Myelo | Spinal Cord |
| The brain has several sections called ___ | Lobes |
| The brain is divded in halves called ______ | Hemispheres |
| The Largest Portion of your brain is _______ | Cerebrum |
| Underneath the Cerebrum is the ______ | Cerebellum |
| The Cerebellum controls ________ | Movement |
| Your Central Nervous System is covered in a protective membrane called the ________ | Meninges |
| The tough outer layer of the CNS and brain is called the ____. | Dura |
| Cerebr/o Encephal/o | Brain |
| Cerebell/o | Cerebellum |
| Lob/o | Lobe |
| Cephal/o | Head |
| Crani/o | Head, Skull |
| Mening/o Meningi/o | Meninges |
| Gangli/o | Nerve Bundles |
| Myel/o | Spinal Cord, Bone Marrow |
| Esthesi/o | Feeling, Sensation |
| Phas/o | Speech |
| Phern/o Pysch/o | Mind |
| Somn/o Somn/i Hypn/o | Sleep |
| Gnosi/o | Know |
| -Mania | Excessive desire |
| -phobia | Excessive fear or sensitivity |
| -Paresis | Slight or Partial Paralysis |
| Ton/o | Muscle Tone, Tension, Pressure |
| Tax/o | Arrangement, Order, Coordination |
| -Plegia | Paralysis |
| -asthenia | Weakness |
| Patient History, Problems, Complaints Impairments, Pain, Paralysis, Senstation/Feelings, Phobia/Mania | Subjective |
| Observation and Discovery Diagnostic Procedures Structure Function Professional Terms Seizure | Objective |
| Diagnosis and Pathology Structure Function | Assessment |
| Treatments and Therapies Anesthesia Drugs Surgical Procedures | Plan |
| Neuralgia Causalgia | Painful signals |
| Hyperesthesia, Dysesthesia | Problems receiving Sensations |
| Syncope | Fainting |
| Problem with speaking | Aphasia Dysphasia |
| Problems with reading | Dsylexia |
| Abnormal Fears | Phobia |
| Unhealthy obsessions | Manias |
| Person enters a sudden state of confusion or abrupt loss of awareness of their surroundings is called _______ | Delirium |
| The term "Little brain" means ___________ | Cerebellum |
| The term that means half the head that comes from the word hemicranias is called | Migraine |
| A disease when a person speaks too fast is called ______ | tachyphasia |
| When a person reports the feeling or sensing of a missing limb that is called | autosomatognosis |
| somnambulation, noctambulation, or somnambulism | The term that means someone walks while asleep |
| A condition characterized by involuntary muscle movements is | Dystonia |
| Greek term "paresis" means to | To let go To slacken |
| The definition of ton/o is ______. | tension muscle tone pressure |
| The term that describes weakness of the nerves is ________ | Neurasthenia |
| Inflammation of the cerebellum is defined as _________. | Cerebellitis |
| Which of the following is/are terms associated with an EEG? | Graphy Electro Encephalo |
| An image of the spinal cord is a _______ | Myelogram |
| Glioblastomas Medulloblastomas Astrocytoma | Nervous System Tumors |
| What is a disease of the blood vessels in the brain. | Cerebrovasular disease |
| What is a premature closure of the skull bone/s called? | Craniosynostosis |
| an accident involving the blood vessels of the brain? | CVA |
| A procedure used to examine blood vessels in the brain is ______. | Cerebral angiography. |
| Inflammation of the tendon _______ | Tendinitis |
| Joint inflammation | Arthritis |
| Inflammation of the bursa | Bursitis |
| Removal of a rib | Costectomy |
| Wrist inflammation | Carpitis |
| Bone Inflammation | Osteitis |
| Decrease in muscle tone or tightness | Hypotonia |
| Softening of a muscle | Myomalacia |
| Muscle Tone | Myotonia |
| Instrument for looking into a joint | Arthroscope |
| Translate the root/suffix asthenia | Weakness |
| Mening/o, Meningi/o | What root refers to the membrane surrounding the brain and spinal cord? |
| What root refers to the nerve bundle? | Gangli/o |
| Which root refers to the spinal cord or bone marrow? | Myel/o |
| Which is the correct breakdown and translation of the medical term encephalalgia? | Encephal (brain) + algia (pain) = brain pain |
| Which is the correct breakdown and translation of the medical term synesthesia? | syn (with, together) + esthesia (feeling, sensation) = together sensation; condition where one sensation is experienced as another |
| Which is the correct breakdown and translation of the medical term apathy? | a (no) + path (suffering, disease) + y (condition) = without feeling; lack of emotion |
| Which is the correct breakdown and translation of the medical term polyneuritis? | poly (many) + neur (nerve) + itis (inflammation) = inflammation of multiple nerves |
| Cephalodynia | Head Pain |
| Build a medical term that means "nerve pain." | Neuralgia |
| Build a medical term that means "abnormal narrowing of the skull." | Craniostenosis |
| Build a medical term that means "excessive bleeding inside the brain." | Intracerebral hemorrhage |
| Build a medical term that means "removal of a piece of the skull." | Craniectomy |
| A patient experiencing an abnormal sensation, usually numbness or tingling in the skin, is experiencing | Paresthesia. |
| An excessive desire to steal is called | Kleptomania. |
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