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Common Conditions and Diseases of the Nervous System
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alzheimer's disease | chronic mental disorder of dementia and progressive disorientation |
| amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) | degeneration of the spinal cord and muscular weakness and atrophy |
| aphasia | unable to speak |
| asthenia | loss of strength, extreme weakness |
| astrocytoma | tumor of the brain or spinal cord |
| ataxia | loss of muscle coordination |
| Bell's palsy | one-sided facial paralysis |
| bradykinesia | slow movement |
| brain tumor | intracranial mass that can be benign or malignant |
| cephalgia | headache |
| cerebral palsy (CP) | nonprogressive paralysis resulting from defect or trauma to the brain at the time of birth |
| cerebrovascular accident (CVA) | stroke, loss of blood supply to an area of the brain, loss of function depends on location and size of damage in the brain |
| chorea | involuntary twitching of muscles |
| coma | abnormal deep sleep |
| concussion | injury to the brain from a blow or impact from an object |
| contusion | injury to the brain causing bruising to the brain |
| convulsion | severe involutary muscle tremors |
| craniocele | protusion of the brain from within the skull |
| degenerative disc disease | wearing away of invertebral disc causing spinal stenosis |
| dementia | progressive impairment of the thought process and loss of memory |
| dysphagia | impairment of speech |
| encephalitis | inflammation of the brain due to disease |
| encephalocele | protrusion of the brain through the cranial cavity |
| encephalosclerosis | hardening of the brain |
| epidural hematoma | mass of blood in the space outside the dura mater of the brain and spinal cord |
| epilepsy | disorder of the brain with convulsive seizures and a loss of consciousness can occur |
| Guillain-Barre Syndrome | acute progressive disease affecting the peripheral and spinal nerves |
| hematoma | mass of blood or swelling of the brain |
| hemiparesis | loss of movement on one side of the body |
| Huntington's chorea | disease of the CNS with progressive dementia and involuntary movements of parts of the body |
| hydrocephalus | accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid within the ventricles of the brain |
| insomnia | inablitiy to fall or stay asleep |
| meningioma | slow growing tumor in the meninges of the brain |
| meningitis | inflammation of the membranes of the brain and spinal cord from microorganisms |
| meningocele | congenital hernia, meninges protrude through an opening in the spinal column or brain |
| multiple sclerosis (MS) | inflammatory disease of the CNS with extreme weakness and numbness |
| myasthenia gravis | severe muscular weakness and fatigue |
| narcolepsy | chronic uncontrolled desire to sleep |
| neuritis | inflammation of a nerve or nerves |
| neuroblastoma | malignant hemorrhagic tumor that begins in the brain |
| Parkinson's disease | chronic disease of the nervous system with tremors, weakness, rigidity, and shuffling gait |
| Reye's syndrome | acute encephalopathy and organ damage from a viral infection |
| skull fracture | trauma causing bone fractures that may lead to temporary or permanent brain tissue damage |
| sleep apnea | periods of apnea during sleep |
| spina bifida | congenital defect, spinal cord is pushed out through an opening in the vertebra |
| subdural hematoma | mass of blood forming beneath the dura mater of the brain |
| transient ischemic attack (TIA) | temporary interference with the blood supply to the brain, may cause numbness, dizziness, and hemiparesis |
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