Unit #4
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| -graph | instrument for recording
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| cephal/o | head
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| encephal/o | brain
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| -graphy | process of recording "a picture or record"
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| hyper- | over, above, beyond, excessive
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| -ia | pertaining to
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| -ism | state of, condition
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| -itis | inflammation
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| -lepsy | seizure
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| kinesi/o | movement
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| hemi- | half
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| -osis | disease (abnormal condition)
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| macro- | large
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| neur/o | nerves, nervous tissue
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| -otomy | surgical incisiion into
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| -pathy | disease, suffering
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| thromb/o | clot
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| quadr/i | four
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| -us | thing
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| crani/o | skull
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| ag-, al-, an- | toward, increasing
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| anencephaly | absense of the brain and spinal cord
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| encepahalography | study of the brain (radiographic)
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| aphasia | inability to communicate through speech
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| agraphia | the inability to convert one's thoughts into writing
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| agnosia | loss of mental ability to understand loss of sensory stimuli (such as sight, sound speech)
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| dementia | deteriorating memory
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| cephalalgia | headache
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| macrocephalus | abnormally large head
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| hyperesthesia | excessive sensitivity to sensory stimuli (such as pain or tuch)
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| -gnosia | recognize
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| phas/o | speech
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| meninges | three layers of memebranes that surround the brain and spinal cord
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| quadriplegia | paralysis of all four extremities and trunk
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| paresthesia | sensation of numbness
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| paraplegia | paralysis of the lower extremities and trunk
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| aneurysm | dilation of the wall of an artery
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| CVA | cerebrovascular accident
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| -plegia | paralysis, (stroke, palsy)
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| par/a | near, beside
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| narc/o | numbness
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| -esthesia | sensation, feeling
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| TIA | transient ischemic attack
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| CNS | central nervous system
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| CSF | cerebrospinal fluid
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| thrombosis | blood clot
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| syncope | fainting
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| deficit | a deficiency
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| embol/o | debris (something inserted or thrown in)
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| hemiplegia | paralysis of one side of the body
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| narcolepsy | sudden, daytime sleep
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| neuropathy | disease of the nervous systeme
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| encephalitis | inflammmation of the brain or spinal cord
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| craniotomy | surgical incision into the cranium or skull
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| bradykinesia | abnormally slow movement
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| dysphasia | difficult speech
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| embolism | a moving clot (abnormal condition in which a blood clot becomes lodged in a blood vessel)
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| a- | away from negative, without
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| dys- | pain
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| brady- | slow
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| -algia | pain
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| an- | without, no, not
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