CHAPTER 6 Medical Terminology - McGraw Hill 2023
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cephal/o | show 🗑
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cerebell/o | show 🗑
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cerebr/o, cerebr/i | show 🗑
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crani/o | show 🗑
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show | brain
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show | ganglion
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show | neuroglia
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show | meninges
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myel/o | show 🗑
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show | nerve
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spin/o | show 🗑
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thalam/o | show 🗑
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vag/o | show 🗑
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show | ventricle
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Nerve cell | show 🗑
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Neuron | show 🗑
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Cell body | show 🗑
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Dendrites | show 🗑
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show | Part of a nerve cell that conducts nerve impulses away from the cell body.
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Myelin sheath | show 🗑
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Terminal end fibers | show 🗑
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Synapse | show 🗑
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show | Various substances located in tiny sacs at the end of the axon.
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show | Ability to respond to stimuli.
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show | Anything that arouses a response.
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Conductivity | show 🗑
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show | Neuron that carries information to the muscles and glands from the central nervous system.
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Afferent neurons | show 🗑
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Interneurons | show 🗑
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show | Bundle of neurons that bear electrical messages to the organs and muscles of the body.
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show | Chemical that stimulates cells.
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Norepinephrine | show 🗑
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show | Released energy that is received or transmitted by tissue or organs and that usually provokes a response.
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Receptors | show 🗑
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Encephalitis | show 🗑
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show | Surgical severing of the vagus nerve.
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show | Inflammation of the cerebellum.
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show | Having the shape of a ganglion.
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Ventriculitis | show 🗑
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show | Inflammation of a nerve.
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show | Relating to the face and the cranium.
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show | Softening of the spinal cord.
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Glio-matosis | show 🗑
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Thalamo-tomy | show 🗑
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Ceph-algia | show 🗑
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Meningo-cele | show 🗑
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Electroencephalogram (EEG) | show 🗑
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Nerve conduction velocity | show 🗑
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Polysomnography (PSG) | show 🗑
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show | Brain image produced by the use of radioactive isotopes.
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show | Type of nuclear image that reveals how tissues and organs are functioning. It can also detect diseases and abnormal metabolic activity.
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show | Radiographic imagining that produces cross-sectional images.
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show | X-ray of the spinal cord after a contrast medium has been injected.
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Cerebral angiogram | show 🗑
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show | Record of the radiographic study of the ventricles of the brain.
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show | Brain images produced by the use of sound waves.
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show | An injury to the brain from an impact with an object.
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Coma | show 🗑
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show | Bruising of the surface of the brain without penetration into the brain.
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show | An overproduction of fluid in the brain, which usually occurs at birth. It can occur in adults with infections or tumors.
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Lobectomy | show 🗑
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Lobotomy | show 🗑
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show | Removal of a part of the skull.
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Craniotomy | show 🗑
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show | Destruction of deep-seated brain structures using three-dimensional coordinates to locate the structures.
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Neuroplasty | show 🗑
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show | Surgical removal of a nerve.
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Neurotomy | show 🗑
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Neurorrhaphy | show 🗑
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Vagotomy | show 🗑
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show | Agent that relives or eliminates pain.
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Anticonvulsants | show 🗑
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show | Agent that relieves pain by inducing a stuporous or euphoric state.
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show | Agent that relieves feelings of agitation.
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show | Agent that induces sleep.
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Anesthetic | show 🗑
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show | A type of degenerative brain disease causing thought disorders, gradual loss of muscle control, and eventually, death.
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show | Loss of memory.
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Aneurysm | show 🗑
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show | Loss of speech.
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Dysphagia | show 🗑
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Apraxia | show 🗑
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show | Inability to receive and understand outside stimuli.
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show | Degenerative disease of the motor neurons leading to loss of muscular control and death.
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show | Degenerative disease of the motor neurons leading to loss of muscular control and death.
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show | Hereditary disorder with uncontrollable, jerking movements.
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Multiple Sclerosis (MS) | show 🗑
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show | Destruction of myeline sheath, particularly in multiple sclerosis.
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Gait | show 🗑
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Paresthesia | show 🗑
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Myasthenia gravis | show 🗑
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Parkinson's disease | show 🗑
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Dopamine | show 🗑
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