Nervous system: combining forms, prefixes, suffixes, pathology
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| show | Excessive sensitivity to pain
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| show | Blood vessel
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| show | Burning
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| show | Head
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| Cerebell/o | show 🗑
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| Cerebr/o | show 🗑
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| show | Deep Sleep (Coma)
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| show | Skull
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| Cry/o | show 🗑
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| Dur/o | show 🗑
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| Encephal/o | show 🗑
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| show | Feeling, Nervous sensation
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| show | Glue, parts of the nervous system that support and connect
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| Hydr/o | show 🗑
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| show | Movement
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| Lept/o | show 🗑
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| Lex/o | show 🗑
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| Mening/o, Meningi/o | show 🗑
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| show | Muscle
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| Myel/o | show 🗑
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| show | Numbness; Stupor; Sleep
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| Neur/o | show 🗑
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| show | Pons
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| Radicul/o | show 🗑
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| Spin/o | show 🗑
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| Tax/o | show 🗑
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| show | Thalamus
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| Thec/o | show 🗑
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| show | Nourishment; Development
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| show | Vagus nerve ( 10th cranial nerve)
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| show | No, Not or without
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| Dys/o | show 🗑
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| epi- | show 🗑
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| show | Half
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| hyper- | show 🗑
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| hypo- | show 🗑
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| intra- | show 🗑
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| micro- | show 🗑
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| show | Abnormal; Near
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| show | Grey matter ( of brain or spinal cord)
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| poly- | show 🗑
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| Quadri- | show 🗑
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| Sub- | show 🗑
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| -algesia | show 🗑
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| -algia | show 🗑
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| -cele | show 🗑
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| -esthesia | show 🗑
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| show | Record
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| -graphy | show 🗑
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| -ine | show 🗑
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| show | Inflammation
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| -kinesia, -kinesis | show 🗑
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| show | Pertaining to movement
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| -lepsy | show 🗑
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| -oma | show 🗑
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| show | Full of; Pertaining to
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| show | Slight paralysis ( weakness)
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| show | Disease; Condition
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| show | eating, swallowing
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| show | Paralysis ( loss or impairment of the ability to move parts of the body)
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| show | Action
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| -ptosis | show 🗑
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| -sclerosis | show 🗑
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| show | Strength
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| show | Incision or Process of cutting
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| show | Nourishment; Development
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| show | Dendrite
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| show | Cerebrum
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| The outer most layer of the meninges | show 🗑
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| Covering of white fatty tissue that surrounds and insulates the axon of a nerve cell | show 🗑
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| A type of neuroglial cell that transports water and salts from capillaries | show 🗑
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| show | Ventricles
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| show | Hypothalamus
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| show | Neurotransmitter
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| Part of the brain responsible for coordinating muscle movements and maintaining balance | show 🗑
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| Space through which a nervous impulse travels between nerve cell or between nerve and muscle or glandular cells | show 🗑
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| Microscopic fiber that carries the nervous impulse along a nerve cell | show 🗑
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| Posterior portion of the brain that connects the cerebrum with the spinal cord | show 🗑
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| show | Cauda Equina
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| show | Ganglion
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| Part of the brain, just above the spinal cord that controls breathing, heartbeat, and size of blood vessels | show 🗑
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| show | Thalamus
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| Sheet of nerve cells that forms a rounded ridge on the surface of the cerebral cortex | show 🗑
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| Depression or groove in the surface of the cerebral cortex | show 🗑
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| Three protective membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord | show 🗑
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| show | Pia mater
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| The combining form that means brain | show 🗑
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| show | Myel/o
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| show | Neur/o
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| show | Radicul/o
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| The combining form that means burning | show 🗑
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| The combining form that means feeling | show 🗑
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| show | Lex/o
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| The suffix that means strength | show 🗑
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| The suffix that means pain | show 🗑
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| The suffix that means seizure | show 🗑
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| A subdural hematoma means a collection of blood under (sub-) the ___(dur/o) | show 🗑
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| show | Brain
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| show | Spinal Cord
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| Neuropathy is disease (-pathy) of _____ (neur/o) | show 🗑
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| Radiculitis is inflammation (-itis) of the ______ (radicul/o) | show 🗑
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| show | Pain
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| Bradykinesia is slowness (brady-) of ______ (-kinesia) | show 🗑
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| show | Weakness
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| show | Coordination
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| Quadriplegia is _______ (-plegia) of all four (quadri-) limbs of the body | show 🗑
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| Abnormal accumulation of fluid in the brain | show 🗑
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| Congenital defects in the lumbar spinal column caused by imperfect union of vertebral parts | show 🗑
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| Brain disorder marked by gradual and progressive dementia, personality changes, and impairment of daily functioning | show 🗑
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| Degenerative disorder of motor neurons in the spinal cord and brain stem | show 🗑
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| show | Epilepsy
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| show | MS (Multiple Sclerosis)
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| show | MG (Myasthenia Gravis)
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| Disease of involuntary, spasmodic, twitching movements, uncontrollable vocal sounds, and inappropriate words | show 🗑
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| Bruising of brain tissue as a result of direct trauma to the head | show 🗑
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| Disruption in the normal blood supply to the brain; stroke | show 🗑
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| show | Cerebral Angiography
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| show | Thymectomy
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| Radioactive glucose is injected and then detected in the brain to image the metabolic activity of cells | show 🗑
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| show | EEG (Electroencephalogram)
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| show | Cerebrospinal fluid analysis
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| show | CT scan (Computerized Tomography)
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| show | MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
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| Use of soundwave to detect blood flow in the carotid and intracranial arteries | show 🗑
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| show | Lumbar Puncture
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| show | Stereotactic Radiosurgery
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| show | Alzheimer Disease
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| ALS | show 🗑
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| MS | show 🗑
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| MG | show 🗑
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| CVA | show 🗑
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| show | Central Nervous System
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| CSF | show 🗑
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| EEG | show 🗑
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| show | Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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| show | Types of neurons: Afferent, Connecting, Efferent
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| show | Sensory neurons; emerge from sensory organs and the skin to carry the impulses from the sensory organs toward the brain and spinal cord
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| show | The absence of normal sensation, especially sensitivity to pain, that is induced by the administration of an anesthetic
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| Aphasia | show 🗑
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| show | The second layer of the meninges and is located between the dura mater and the pia mater.
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| show | controls the involuntary actions of the body
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| show | A process that extends away from the cell body and conducts impulses away from the nerve cell
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| show | Temporary paralysis of the seventh cranial nerve that causes drooping only on the affected side of the face
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| Brainstem | show 🗑
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| show | Persistent, severe burning pain that usually follows an injury to a sensory nerve
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| Cephalalgia | show 🗑
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| Cerebellum | show 🗑
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| show | Pertaining to the cerebrum
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| show | The cerebrum is divided into these two parts
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| Cerebrum | show 🗑
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| show | Nerve pain caused by pressure on the spinal nerve roots in the neck region
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| Cognition | show 🗑
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| Coma | show 🗑
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| Concussion | show 🗑
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| Connecting neurons | show 🗑
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| show | A collection of blood trapped in the tissues of the brain
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| show | 12 pairs of nerves that originate from the undersurface of the brain
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| show | A slowly progressive decline in mental abilities, including memory, thinking, and judgement.
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| show | The root-like processes that receive impulses and conduct them to the cell body
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| show | Carry nerve impulses away from the brain
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| Dura Mater | show 🗑
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| Dyslexia | show 🗑
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| show | Motor neurons that carry impulses away from the brain and spinal cord and toward the muscles and glands.
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| Encephalocele | show 🗑
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| show | Regional Anesthesia produced by injecting a local anesthetic into the epidural space of the lumbar or sacral region of the spine
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| show | A nerve center made up of a cluster of nerve cell bodies outside the central nervous system
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| show | Provide support and protection for neurons
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| show | Occurs when a blood vessel in the brain leaks or ruptures; also known as a bleed
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| Hypothalamus | show 🗑
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| show | A type of stroke that occurs when the flow of blood to the brain is blocked
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| Lobectomy | show 🗑
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| Lumbar puncture | show 🗑
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| show | Nerve pain in the lower back caused by muscle spasms or by the nerve root irritation from the compression of vertebral disks such as a herniated disk.
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| Medulla | show 🗑
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| show | The system of membranes that enclose the brain and spinal cord of the CNS
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| Meningitis | show 🗑
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| Meningocele | show 🗑
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| show | provides conduction pathways to and from the higher and lower centers in the brain
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| Myelin sheath | show 🗑
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| show | An inflammation of the spinal cord; also inflammation of bone marrow
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| show | A sleep disorder consisting of recurring episodes of falling asleep during the day
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| Nerve | show 🗑
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| show | The basic cells of the nervous system that allow different parts of the body to communicate with eachother
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| Neuroplasty | show 🗑
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| show | Surgically suturing together the ends of a severed nerve
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| Neurotransmitter | show 🗑
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| show | Returns the body to normal after a response to stress
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| show | refers to a burning or prickling sensation
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| show | Parkinson's disease- A chronic degenerative central nervous disorder in which there is a progressive loss of control over movement, resulting in tremors and a shuffling gait
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| show | includes the 12 pairs of cranial nerves extending from the brain and the 31 pairs of peripheral spinal nerves extending outward from the spinal cord
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| show | The third layer of the meninges, located nearest to the brain and spinal cord (Delicate)
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| Plexus | show 🗑
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| Poliomyelitis | show 🗑
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| show | an inflammation of the root of a spinal nerve that causes pain and numbness radiating down the affected limb; also known as a pinched nerve
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| Receptors | show 🗑
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| Stimulus | show 🗑
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| Sympathetic nervous system | show 🗑
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| show | The space between two neurons or between a neuron and a receptor organ
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| Syncope | show 🗑
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| show | the branching of fibers at the end of the axon that lead the nervous impulse from the axon to the synapse
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| Thalamotomy | show 🗑
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| show | Located below the cerebrum, produces sensations by relaying impulses to and from the cerebrum and the sense organs of the body
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| show | Transient ischemic attack- the temporary interruption in the blood supply of the brain
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| show | chemical that influences muscle action
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| Dopamine | show 🗑
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| show | Naturally occurring substances that are produced by the brain to help relieve pain.
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| Norepinephrine | show 🗑
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| Seratonin | show 🗑
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| show | Portion of the nerve fibers that are myelinated
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| Gray matter | show 🗑
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| show | inner surface of the vertebral column
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| show | located between the dura mater and the arachnoid membrane
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| subarachnoid space | show 🗑
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| cerebral cortex | show 🗑
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| frontal lobe | show 🗑
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| parietal lobe | show 🗑
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| show | controls eyesight
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| show | hearing, smell, ability to create, store, and access new information
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| absence seizure | show 🗑
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| show | Enlarged, weakened area in an arterial wall, which may rupture, leading to hemorrhage and CVA (stroke).
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| aura | show 🗑
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| show | Clot of material that travels through the bloodstream and suddenly blocks a vessel.
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| gait | show 🗑
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| show | Blockage.
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| show | Relieving symptoms but not curing them.
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| AFP | show 🗑
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| show | intracranial pressure (normal pressure is 5 to 15 mm Hg)
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| show | patient controlled anesthesia
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| show | tissue plasminogen activator; a clot-dissolving drug used as therapy for stroke
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