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Chpt 14 Nervous Sys
Medical Terminology Sys.: A Body Sys. App. 6th Ed.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| incision of the cerebrum | cerebr/o/tomy |
| softening of the cranium | crani/o/malacia |
| herniation of the brain | encephal/o/cele |
| disease of the meninges | lept/o/mening/o/pathy |
| difficulty using words | dys/lex/ia |
| herniation of the meninges | mening/o/cele |
| tumor in the meninges | meningi/oma |
| inflammation of the gray matter of the spinal cord | poli/o/myel/itis |
| relating to sleep | narc/o/tic |
| destruction of a nerve | neur/o/lysis |
| pain in the nerve root | radicul/algia |
| condition of excessive strength | hyper/sthen/ia |
| incision of the thalamus | thalam/o/tomy |
| pertaining to the space within a sheath | intra/thec/al |
| bad or poor (muscle) tone | dys/ton/ia |
| measurement of ventricle (pressure) | ventricul/o/metry |
| absense of (a normal sense of) pain | an/algesia |
| joined (referred) pain | syn/algia |
| muscle weakness | asthenia |
| increased feeling | hyper/ethesia |
| excessive movement | hyper/kinesia |
| seizure of sleep | narc/o/lepsy |
| excision of a ganglion | gangli/ectomy |
| tumor (composed of) neuroglial tissue | gli/oma |
| condition of slow movement | brady/kines/ia |
| disease of the meninges | lept/o/mening/o/pathy |
| difficulty using words | dys/lex/ia |
| paralysis of one-half (of the body) | hemi/paresis or hemi/plegia |
| without speech | a/phasia |
| paralysis of four (extremities) | quadri/plegia |
| without coordination | a/taxia |
| inflammation of the dura mater | pachy/mening/itis |
| paralysis of lower body and limbs | para/plegia |
| referred pain | syn/algia |
| pertaining to one side | uni/later/al |
| abnormal mood, manic or depressed | affective disorder |
| eating disorder, thin desire | anorexia nervosa |
| worry excessive thought on "what if..." | anxiety |
| impulsiveness,overactivity,inability to remain focused on a task | ADHD |
| unusual shifts in mood, emotion, energy, and ability to function | bipolar disorder |
| eating disorder, binge (overeat) purge (vomit/lax) | bulimia nervosa |
| sadness, despair, discouragement, feelings of low self-esteem, guilt, and withdrawal | depression |
| mental and physical hyperactivity,disorganized behavior, and excessively elevated mood | mania |
| sudden, intense, overwhelming feeling of fear that comes with warning or immediate danger | panic attack |
| inability to comprehend auditory, visual, spatial, olfactory, or other sensations even though the sensory sphere is intact | agnosia |
| weakness, debility, or loss of strength | asthenia (MS) |
| lack of muscle coordination in execution of voluntary movement | ataxia |
| premonitory awareness of an approaching physical or mental disorder; sensation that precedes seizures | aura |
| extreme withdrawal, abnormal absorption in fantasy, inability to communicate even on a basic level | autism |
| injury to the head where the dura mater remains intact and brain tissue is not exposed | closed head trauma |
| deep unconsciousness with absence of voluntary response to stimuli | coma |
| brain injury with loss of consciousness as a result | concussion |
| sudden, violent contraction of muscle/s | convulsion |
| cognitive defect, memory impairment | dementia |
| inability to learn and process written language despite adequate intelligence, sensory ability, and exposure | dyslexia |
| autoimmune acute inflammation of PNS nerves where myelin sheaths on axons are destroyed resulting in decreased nerve impulses, loss of reflex response, and sudden muscle weakness | Guillain-Barre syndrome |
| painful, acute infectious disease of the posterior root ganglia of only a few segments of the spinal or cranial nerves; shingles | herpes zoster |
| CNS disease portrays quick involuntary movement, speech disturbances, and mental deterioration | Huntington chorea |
| fluid accumulation in brain ventricles, causing ICP, thin brain tissue, cranial bone separation | hydrocephalus |
| inactivity or lack of response to normal stimuli; sluggishness | lethargy |
| triggers feelings of distress and anxiety and impairs normal behavior | neurosis |
| facial paralysis caused by a functional disorder of the seventh cranial nerve, associated with herpes virus | Bell palsy |
| can occur as a result of trauma to the brain during the birthing process; paralysis that affects movement and body position and, sometimes speech and learning ability | Cerebral palsy (CP) |
| neural tube fails to close during embryogenesis | spina bifida |
| form of spina bifida where meninges protrude through spine | mening/o/cele |
| form of spina bifida where spinal cord and meninges protrude through spine | myel/o/mening/o/cele |
| form of spina bifida in which one or more vertebrae are malformed and the spinal cord is covered with a layer of skin | occulta |
| numbness, prickling, tingling, or heightened sensitivity sensations | paresthesia |
| inflammation of spinal cord's gray matter caused by virus, commonly resulting in spinal and muscle deformity and paralysis | poliomyelitis |
| acute encephalopathy and fatty infiltration of the brain, liver, and, possibly, the pancreas, heart, kidney, spleen, and lymph nodes | Reye syndrome |
| leg pain along sciatic nerve felt from base of spine,radiating down thigh and leg due to compressed nerve | sciatica |
| fainting, temporary loss of consciousness due to the sudden decline of blood flow to the brain | syncope |
| seizure with loss of consciousness w/ stiffness (tonic) followed by jerking (clonic) | tonic-clonic seizure |
| interference with brain blood supply lasting minutes to hours | transient ischemic attack (TIA) |
| brain electrical activity recording | electr/o/encephal/o/graphy |
| muscle electrical activity recording at both rest and contraction to assess nerve damage | electr/o/my/o/graphy |
| needle puncture of spinal cavity to extract CSF (spinal puncture or spinal tap) | lumbar puncture |
| measures speed at which impulses travel through a nerve | nerve conduction velocity (NCV) |
| chemical, microscopic, and microbial test to diagnose CNS disorders | CSF analysis |
| radiography of blood vessels after contrast medium introduction (cerebral arteriography) | angiography |
| rotating x-Ray emitter around area to be scanned and measuring intensity of transmitted rays from different angles | computed tomography (CT) |
| diagnostic radiological exam of spinal canal, nerve roots, and spinal cord after injection of spinal medium into spinal canal | myelography |
| scan using CT to record positrons emitted from radiopharmaceutical x-sect image of metabolic activity in body tissues to determine presence of disease | positron emission tomography (PET) |
| image produced by high-frequency sound waves (ultrasound) that display echoes; sonography, echogram | ultrasonography (US) |
| US technique to study intracranial structures of the brain and conditions that shift midline brain structures | echoencephalography |
| extreme cold use to destroy abnormal tissue | cryosurgery |
| destroy sharp circumscribed lesions on tiny specific areas of tissue in deep-seated structures of CNS | stereotaxic radiosurgery |
| partial thalamus destruction treating intractable pain, involuntary movements, or emotional disturbances | thalamotomy |
| transection of a nerve tract in the brainstem or spinal cord | tractotomy |
| circular cut in skull revealing brain tissue and decreasing pressure | trephination |
| vagus nerve function interrupted for relief of peptic ulcer | vagotomy |
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