nervous system
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| cerebr/o | largest parts of brain
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| encephal/o | entire brain
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| esthesi/o | sensation
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| gangli/o | ganglion (knot)
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| gnos/o | knowing
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| somn/i | sleep
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| somn/o | sleep
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| lex/o | word or phrase
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| phas/o | speech
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| somat/o | body
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| tax/o | order or cordination
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| thalam/o | thalamus (a room)
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| -asthenia | weakness
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| -mania | condition of abnormal impulse toward
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| frontal lobe | responsible for personality
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| temporal lobe | responsible for hearing, taste, and smell
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| thalamus (diencephalon) | relay sensory for infor to cortext
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| cerebellum | control and cordination of skeletal muscles
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| brainstem | responsible for breathing, heart rate, and body temperature
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| meninges | three membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord
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| spinal nerves | 31 pairs of nerves arising from the spinal cord
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| motor nerves | nerves that conduct motor impulses from the brain to muscles and glands
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| aphasia | condition without speech
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| dysphasia | difficulty speaking
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| coma | decreased consciousness
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| delirium | state of mental confusion due to disturbances in cerebral function
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| motor dificit | loss or impairment of muscle function
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| neuralgia | pain along the course of a nerve
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| hemiparesis | partial paralysis of the right or left half of the body
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| syncope | fainting
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| amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | Lou Gehrig disease
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| Alzheimer disease | irreversible deterioration
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| cerebral palsy | damage to the cerebrum during development or injury at birth
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| verbrovascular accident stroke | damage to the brain caused be cerebrovascular disease
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| transient ischemic attack | often precedes a CVA
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| epilepsy | disorder affecting the cetral nervous system characterized by recurrent seizures
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| tonic-clonic | previously termed grand mal (big bad) seizure
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| herpe zoster | viral disease affecting the peripheral nerves. also know as shingles
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| hydrocephalus hydrocephaly | anoral accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the ventricles
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| migrain headache | accompanied by disordered vision, nausea, and/or vomiting
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| multiple sclerosis | characterized by the demyelination
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| Parkinson disease | tremor, rigidity of muscles, and slow movemets usually occurring later in life.
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