Appendix A Part 2

Question 1

Retrograde

Answer 1

Going backward, going toward the cell body

Question 2

Fugal

Answer 2

Traveling away from

Question 3

Lesion

Answer 3

Any type of injury, damage, or hurt

Question 4

Myelopathy

Answer 4

Lesion of the spinal cord

Question 5

Necrosis

Answer 5

Death of cells or tissue

Question 6

Neoplasm

Answer 6

Any new abnormal growth

Question 7

Malignant

Answer 7

Spreading life threatening neoplasm

Question 8

Metastic

Answer 8

Transferring to other tissue

Question 9

Idiopathic

Answer 9

Something of unknown cause

Question 10

Ischemia

Answer 10

Suppress blood supply to an area

Question 11

Hematoma

Answer 11

An accumulation of blood outside of the blood vessels

Question 12

Aneurysm

Answer 12

An abnormal dilation of a blood vessel wall and its lumen

Question 13

Stroke

Answer 13

Blood vascular loss in the CNS leading to permanent or prolonged brain damage

Question 14

Angiography

Answer 14

X-ray of blood vessels injected with radiopaque dyes

Question 15

Myelography

Answer 15

X-ray of vertebral canal and spinal cord structures following injection of radiopaque dyes into the CSF

Question 16

Ataxia

Answer 16

Irregularity in skeletal muscle coordination

Question 17

Paralysis

Answer 17

Total or partial loss of normal motor function

Question 18

Aphasia

Answer 18

Inability to communicate by speech, writing, or signs

Question 19

Dysphasia

Answer 19

A partial or unusual loss of communicative ability

Question 20

Archi

Answer 20

Prefix meaning beginning or original

Question 21

Paleo

Answer 21

Prefix meaning old

Question 22

Neo

Answer 22

Prefix meaning new