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Nervous System CH 10
Chabner 8ed Ch. 10 Nervous System
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| alges/o | excessive sensitivity to pain |
| angi/o | vessel |
| caus/o | burn; burning |
| cephal/o | head |
| cerebell/o | cerebellum |
| cerebr/o | brain; cerebrum |
| comat/o | deep sleep (coma) |
| crani/o | skull |
| cry/o | cold |
| dur/o | dura mater |
| encephal/o | brain |
| esthesi/o | feeling (nervous sensation) |
| gli/o | glial cells |
| hydr/o | water |
| kines/o | movement |
| kinesi/o | movement |
| lept/o | thin, slender |
| lex/o | word, prase |
| mening/o | membranes, meninges |
| meningi/o | membranes, meninges |
| my/o | muscle |
| myel/o | spinal cord; bone marrow |
| narc/o | numbness; stupor; sleep |
| neur/o | nerve |
| olig/o | scanty |
| pont/o | pons (a part of the brain) |
| radicul/o | nerve root (of spinal nerves) |
| spin/o | spin (backbone); spinal cord |
| syncop/o | to cut off; cut short |
| tax/o | order, coordination |
| thalam/o | thalamus |
| thec/o | sheath (refers to the meninges) |
| troph/o | nourishment, development |
| vag/o | vagus nerve (10th cranial nerve) |
| a- | no, not, without |
| an- | no, not, without |
| dys- | bad; painful; difficult; abnormal |
| epi- | above; upon; on |
| hemi- | half |
| hyper- | excessive, above |
| hypo- | under, deficient, below |
| intra- | within; into |
| micro- | small |
| para- | near; beside; abnormal; apart from |
| polio- | gray matter (of brain or spinal cord) |
| poly- | many; much |
| quadri- | four |
| sub- | under; below |
| -algesia | excessive sensitivity to pain |
| -algia | pain |
| -blast | embryonic; immature |
| -cele | hernia |
| -esthesia | nervous sensation |
| -gram | record |
| -graphy | process of recording |
| -ine | a substance |
| -itis | inflammation |
| -kinesia | movement |
| -kinesis | movement |
| -kinetic | movement |
| -lepsy | seizure |
| -oma | tumor; mass; fluid collection |
| -ose | full of; pertaining to; sugar |
| -paresis | weakness |
| -pathy | disease; emotion |
| -phagia | eating; swallowing |
| -phasia | speech |
| -plegia | paralysis (loss or impairment of the ability to move parts of the body) |
| -praxia | action |
| -ptosis | droop; sag; prolapse; fall |
| -sclerosis | hardening |
| -sthenia | strength |
| -tomy | process of cutting |
| -trophy | development; nourishment |
| par- | abnormal |
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