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12 Med Term
Brain
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| somat/o | body |
| Central Nervous System CNS | Brain and Spinal cord |
| Peripheral Nervous System PNS | nerves that extend from brain and spinal cord to tissues of body |
| cranial nerves | 12 |
| spinal nerves | 31 |
| afferent | sensory |
| efferent | motor |
| astrocyte | cells that connect neurons and blood vessels |
| rhiz/o, radicul/o | nerve root |
| athetosis | Continuous, involuntary, slow, writhing movement of the extremities |
| aura | premonition; sensation of light or warmth that may precede a seizure or some types of headache |
| dyssomnia | Disorders of the sleep-wake cycles |
| fasciculation | involuntary contraction of small, local muscles |
| ataxia | lack of muscle coordination |
| hypokinesia | Decrease in normal movement; may be due to paralysis |
| acalculia | inability to perform mathematical calculations |
| ageusia | Absence of the ability to taste |
| Parageusia | an abnormal sense of taste or a bad taste in the mouth |
| agnosia | inability to recognize objects visually, auditorily or with other senses |
| agraphia | inability to write |
| anosmia | Lack of sense of smell |
| apraxia | inability to perform purposeful movements or to use objects appropriately |
| cerebral palsy CP | Motor function disorder as a result of permanent, non-progressive brain defect or lesion caused perinatally |
| Huntington Chorea | inherited disorder that manifests itself in adulthood as a progressive loss of neural control, uncontrollable jerking movements, and dementia |
| Spina Bifida | Condition in which the spinal column has an abnormal opening that allows protrusion of the meninges and/or the spinal cord |
| Tay-Sachs disease | caused by an enzyme deficiency that results in CNS deterioration |
| Alzheimer Disease AD | progressive neurodegenerative disease inwhich patients exhibit an impairment of cognitive functioning |
| Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ALS | degenerative, fatal disease of motor neurons patients exhibit muscle weakness and atrophy |
| Guillain-Barre syndrome | autoimmune disorder of acute polyneuritis producing profound myasthena that may lead to paralysis |
| multiple sclerosis MS | destruction of myelin sheath on CNS neurons and replacement with hardened plaque |
| Parkinson Disease PD | neurodegenerative disease characterized by tremors, fasciculations, slow shuffling gait, hypokinesia, dysphasia and dysphagia |
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