Reverse Definitions Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
A disorder characterized by seizures | Epilepsy |
Abnormal, deep unconsciousness | Coma |
Abnormally small head | Microcephaly |
All- consuming desire to remain thin | Anorexia Nervosa |
Binging and purging | Bulima Nervosa |
Brain injury causing transient loss of conciousness | Concussion |
Cavity of a organ | Ventricle |
Circular opening make in the skull to relieve ICP | Trephination |
Conveys impulses to the glands, smooth muscles and cardiac muscles | Autonomic Nervous system |
Conveys impulses for voluntary functions | Somatic Nervous system |
Depress CNC functions to induce sleep | Hypnotic |
Disease of the myelin sheath | Multiple sclerosis |
Disease of the spinal cord | Myleopathy |
sensory perception and interpretation, muscular movement and emotional aspects of behavior and memorey | Cerebrum |
Inability to comprehend auditory, visual, spatial,olfactory and other sensations | Agnosia |
Inability to move or talk | Catatonic |
Inability to speak | Aphsia |
Incision into the skull | Craniotomy |
Includes all nervous tissue of the body found outside the CNS | Peripheral nervous system |
Inflammation of the brain | Encephalitis |
Innermost membrane of the brain and spinal cord | Pia mater |
Involuntary tremble or shake | Tremor |
Involuntary, spasmodic muscular contractions | Tics |
Lack of muscle coordination | Ataxia |
Lack of response; sluggishnesss | Lethargy |
Major emotional disorder | Psychosis |
Measures the speed impulses travel through a nerve | Nerve conduction velocity |
Middle layer covering the brain and spinal cord | Arachnoid membrane |
Moves away from a central structure | Efferent |
Moves towards a central structure | Afferent |
Needle puncture of spinal cavity | Lumbar puncture |
Network of nervous tissue found in the brain and spinal cord | Central nervous system |
Non psychotic mental illness | Neurosis |
Occurring without a known cause | Idiopathic |
Outermost layer covering the brain and spinal cord | Dura mater |
Pain in the spinal cord | Myelagia |
Painful, acute infectious disease; aka shingles | Herpes zoster |
Poor development | Dystrophy |
Premonitory awareness of an approaching physical or mental disorder | Aura |
Produce loss of sensation | Anesthetics |
Psychological "worry" disorder | Anxiety |
Records electrical activity of brain patterns | Electroencephalography |
Refines muscular movements; aids in equilibrium | Cerebellum |
Relieves pain | Analgesic |
Sudden and violent contraction of the muscles | Convulsion |
The functional cell of the nervous system | Neuron |
Three membranes that cover and protect the brain and spinal cord | Meninges |
Transmits impulses across synapses | Neurotransmitter |
weakness or debility | Asthenia |
White fat like sheath | Myelin sheath |
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