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| Afferent Nerves | show 🗑
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| Alzheimer's Disease | show 🗑
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| Anaesthesia | show 🗑
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| show | Agents that relieve pain by inhibiting the passage of pain impulses.
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| show | Autonomic Nervous System - one of the two parts of the Peripheral Nervous System which conveys impulses to glands, smooth muscles, and cardiac muscles (involuntary functions).
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| show | Medications which are seizure suppressants.
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| show | Medications used to alleviate mental depression.
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| show | Inability to speak.
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| show | Middle layer covering the brain, between the dura mater and pia mater.
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| Astrocytes | show 🗑
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| show | Irregularity of movement due to defective muscle control. Lack of muscle coordination.
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| Axon | show 🗑
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| show | Facial paralysis due to 7th cranial nerve disorder.
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| show | Major section of the brain that serves as a pathway for impulse conduction between the brain and the spinal cord; made up of medulla, pons and midbrain.
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| show | Stuporous or unresponsiveness; inability to move or talk.
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| show | Second largest part of the brain; occupies the back of the brain; refines the movement when the cerebrum initiates muscular movement; aids in maintaining equilibrium. Motor, sensory and association.
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| Cerebrum | show 🗑
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| Cisternal Puncture | show 🗑
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| CNS | show 🗑
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| show | Abnormal, deep unconsciousness with absence of voluntary responses to stimuli.
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| show | Injury resulting from impact of the brain with an object. Transient loss off deep consciousness.
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| show | Onset of involuntary muscle contractions and relaxations.
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| show | Cerebral Palsy - a disease involving dysfunction of the cerebrum which is involved with sensory perception, muscular movement, and emotional aspects of memory and behaviour.
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| show | Incision into the skull.
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| show | Cerebrospinal Fluid
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| show | Computerized Tomography Scan-a radiographic examination which demonstrates the area in segments of depth; with computer-generated results
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| show | Branching cytoplasmic projections that receive impulses and transmit them to the cell body
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| Dura mater | show 🗑
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| show | Abnormal rhythm, such as electrical disturbances in the brain.
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| Dystrophy | show 🗑
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| EEG | show 🗑
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| show | Also known as motor nerves; conduct impulses away from the Central Nervous System.
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| show | Inflammation of the brain
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| show | A recurrent disorder of cerebral functions characterized by seizures/convulsions.
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| ECT | show 🗑
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| Ganglion | show 🗑
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| show | Excision of a ganglion
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| Grand Mal Seizure | show 🗑
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| Hemiplegia | show 🗑
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| show | Increase of cerebrospinal fluid within the ventricles of the brain.
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| Hyperkinesia | show 🗑
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| show | Occuring without a known cause.
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| show | Sluggishness-lack of response
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| LP | show 🗑
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| Meninges | show 🗑
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| Meningocele | show 🗑
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| Microcephaly | show 🗑
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| show | Nerves composed of both sensory and motor nerves.
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| show | A nerve that conducts impulses away from the Central Nervous System. Message sent from the brain.
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| Multiple Sclerosis | show 🗑
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| show | Pain in the spinal cord/bone marrow.
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| Myelin | show 🗑
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| Myelography | show 🗑
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| Nerve | show 🗑
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| show | Induction of regional anaesthesia causing loss of sensation.
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| Neuroglia | show 🗑
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| Neurolysis | show 🗑
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| show | A nerve cell; the functional cell of the nervous system; is responsible for impulse conduction.
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| Neurotransmitters | show 🗑
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| Opiates | show 🗑
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| Paraplegia | show 🗑
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| show | Part of the Autonomic Nervous System. Reverses effects of sympathetic system on the body (eg. slows the heart rate).
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| Petit Mal Seizure | show 🗑
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| show | Innermost membrane covering the brain and spinal cord.
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| show | Peripheral Nervous System-includes all nervous tissue of the body found outside the Central Nervous System.
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| Quadriplegia | show 🗑
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| Sedative | show 🗑
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| show | A nerve that receives impulses from sense organs. Messages sent to the brain.
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| show | Somatic Nervous System-one of the two parts of the Peripheral Nervous System which conveys impulses for voluntary functions.
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| Spina Bifida | show 🗑
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| Sympathetic Nervous System | show 🗑
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| show | Conveys sensory impulses to the brain from different parts of the body and also transmits motor impulses away from the brain to all muscles and organs.
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| show | A small space found between the axon of one neuron and the dendrite of another. The space between two neurons.
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| Syncope | show 🗑
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| show | Genetic enzyme deficiency;characterized by progressive mental challenges, paralysis, blindness, inability to eat, and ultimately to death by age of 4 years.
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| show | Involuntary, spasmodic muscular contractions, usually of the face and neck.
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| Tranquilizers | show 🗑
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| Tremor | show 🗑
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| show | Spaces located in the inner portion of the brain that contains cerebrospinal fluid.
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| show | Circular opening made in skull to relieve Intracranial Pressure (ICP).
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| Blood Brain Barrier (BBB) | show 🗑
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| Myelpathy | show 🗑
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