Busy. Please wait.
Log in with Clever
or

show password
Forgot Password?

Don't have an account?  Sign up 
Sign up using Clever
or

Username is available taken
show password

Your email address is only used to allow you to reset your password. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.


Already a StudyStack user? Log In

Reset Password
Enter the associated with your account, and we'll email you a link to reset your password.

Medical Terminology/NAR Chapter 10 Terms

Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in each of the black spaces below before clicking on it to display the answer.
        Help!  

Term
Definition
Absence seizure   show
🗑
show Deterioration of the brain affecting memory and reasoning  
🗑
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis   show
🗑
show unreasonable and excessive worrying  
🗑
show medication that inhibits anxiety  
🗑
show loss of ability to understand or express speech  
🗑
show mental condition with difficulty communicating and forming relationships with other people  
🗑
show paralysis of the facial nerves  
🗑
show brain bruise  
🗑
Cerebral hemispheres   show
🗑
Cerebral palsy   show
🗑
Cerebrovascular accident (stroke)   show
🗑
show largest portion of the brain and consists of two hemispheres  
🗑
Cognition   show
🗑
show Type of psychotherapy in which negative patterns of thought about the self and world are challenged  
🗑
show sudden severe mental changes due to alcohol withdrawal  
🗑
Drug overdose   show
🗑
show recording the electrical activity of the brain  
🗑
Encephalitis   show
🗑
show pain medication injected into the epidural space around the spinal cord  
🗑
Epilepsy   show
🗑
Factitious disorder   show
🗑
show bleeding stroke  
🗑
show inability to sleep  
🗑
Ischemic stroke   show
🗑
show neurologically-based processing problems  
🗑
show lack of energy and enthusiasm  
🗑
Malingering   show
🗑
show intense throbbing, pulsating pain  
🗑
Multiple personality disorder   show
🗑
show most common disorder where nerve fibers demyelinate.  
🗑
Narcolepsy   show
🗑
show Surgically cutting into a nerve  
🗑
show chemicals which assist or inhibit the transmission of a stimulus across a synapse  
🗑
show abnormal sensation  
🗑
Parkinson's disease   show
🗑
show reliving significant trauma  
🗑
show medical specialty concerned with mental, emotional, behavioral disorders  
🗑
show psychotic disorder characterized by withdrawal from reality, illogical patterns of thinking, delusions, and hallucinations, as well as other disturbances  
🗑
Sedative   show
🗑
show baby is violently shaken causing brain and bone damage  
🗑
show substance that raises levels of physiological or nervous activity in the body  
🗑
show state of near-unconsciousness or insensibility  
🗑
Sympathetic nerves   show
🗑


   

Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
 
To hide a column, click on the column name.
 
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
 
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
 
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.

 
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.

  Normal Size     Small Size show me how
Created by: ebryzgornia
Popular Medical sets