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Med Term Chpt 10
nervous system
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| antiepileptic | not having seizures |
| aphasia | w/out ability to speak or communicate |
| cerebrovascular | blood flow to the brain |
| dementia | condition of being w/out the mind |
| electroencephalography | diagnostic procedure to record brain activity |
| hemiplegic | half paralyzed |
| hyperesthesia | heightened awareness to touch |
| hypoglossal | under the tongue |
| meningitis | inflammation of the linings of the brain |
| paresthesia | condition of abnormal sensations (tingling/burning) |
| HNP | herniated nucleus pulposus - slipped disk |
| seizure | epilept/o |
| speech | phas/o |
| largest part of brain | cerebr/o |
| blood vessel | vascul/o |
| mind, chin | ment/o |
| electricity | electr/o |
| brain | encephal/o |
| paralysis | pleg/o |
| sensation or feeling | esthes/o |
| tongue | gloss/o |
| protective membranes of the brain | meningi/o or mening/o |
| skull | crani/o |
| CVA | cerebrovascular accident |
| coma | deep state of unconsciousness |
| concussion | traumatic injury to brain |
| dementia | lessening of brain abilities |
| dyslexia | difficulty reading and writing |
| enchephalitis | inflammation of the brain |
| epilepsy | miss-firing of the brain |
| hematoma | hemat/o blood oma tumor, mass |
| word | lex/o |
| hydrocephalus | water on the brain |
| swallow | phagia |
| weakness | paresis |
| paralysis | plegia |
| speach | phasia |
| fainting | syncope (syncop/o) |
| meninges | pia mater, arachnoid, dura mater |
| thought, emotion | frontal lobe |
| sensory | parietal (high on the side) |
| hearing | temporal (ear area) |
| vision | occipital (very back) |
| relay station, processes and sent on | thalamus |
| endocrine and neurological function | hypothalamus |
| CSF | cerebrospinal fluid found in ventricles in the brain |
| fight or flight | sympathetic branch |
| rest and digest | parasympathetic branch |
| ALS or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | a w/out, myo muscle, troph/o development, -ic pertaining to, scler/o hard, -osis abnormal condition, process |
| MS multiple sclerosis | chronic progressive degenerative autoimmuine disease, body makes antibogies against myelin |
| TIA transient ischemic attack | mini-stroke comes and goes - lack of blood flow to brain |
| angiography | angi/o blood vessel, lymphatic vessel |
| doppler | high frequency sound waves - 2 dimensional |
| CAT scan | bony structures |
| MRI | soft tissues |
| myelography | myel/o bone marrow, spinal cord, myelin; inject die to look at structure |
| PET scan | positron emission tomography - uses radioactive substance that emits positrons (tom/o cut, slice, layer) |
| EEG | electroencephalography - procedure to record electrical activity of brain |
| Babinski's sign | test for neurological function |
| GCS | Glasgow coma scale - measures depth of coma |
| LP | lumbar puncture - to obtain cerebrospinal fluid(CSF) also called spinal tap |
| TENS | transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation |
| carotic endarterectomy | innermost artery surgical excision - to remove plaque from the carotid artery |
| surgical incision into scull | craniotomy |
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