Chapter 12- Nervous System Flashcards
term- neurologists.
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meaning- Physicians who specialize in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of neurologic disorders are called neurologists. The specialty is neurology.
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term- amnesia
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meaning- Loss of memory caused by brain damage or severe emotional trauma.
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term- aphasia
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meaning- Lack or impairment of the ability to form or understand speech. Less severe forms include dysphasia (dis FAY zsa) and dysarthria (dis AR three ah); dysarthria refers to difficulty in the articulation (pronunciation) of speech.
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term- athetosis
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meaning- Continuous, involuntary, slow, writhing movement of the extremities.
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term-aura
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meaning-Premonition; sensation of light or warmth that may precede an epileptic seizure or the onset of some types of headache.
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term- dysphagia
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meaning- Condition of difficulty with swallowing.
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term-dyssomnia
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meaning-Disorders of the sleep-wake cycles. Insomnia is the inability to sleep or stay asleep. Hypersomnia is excessive depth or length of sleep, which may be accompanied by daytime sleepiness.
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term- fasciculation
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meaning- Involuntary contraction of small, local muscles.
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term- gait, abnormal
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meaning- Disorder in the manner of walking. An example is ataxia (uh TACK see uh), a lack of muscular coordination, as in cerebral palsy (CP).
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term- hypokinesia
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meaning- Decrease in normal movement; may be due to paralysis.
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term- neuralgia
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meaning- Nerve pain. If described as a “burning pain,” it is called causalgia.
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term- paresthesia
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meaning- Feeling of prickling, burning, or numbness.
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term- seizure
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meaning- Neuromuscular reaction to abnormal electrical activity within the brain. Causes include fever or epilepsy, a recurring seizure disorder; also called convulsions.
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term- spasm
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meaning- Involuntary muscle contraction of sudden onset. Examples are hiccoughs, tics, and stuttering.
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term- syncope
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meaning- Fainting. A vasovagal (VAS soh VAY gul) attack is a form of syncope that results from abrupt emotional stress involving the vagus nerve’s effect on blood vessels.
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term-tremors
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meaning-Rhythmic, quivering, purposeless skeletal muscle movements seen in some elderly individuals and in patients with various neurodegenerative disorders.
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term-vertigo
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meaning-Dizziness; abnormal sensation of movement when there is none— either of oneself moving, or of objects moving around oneself.
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term- acalculia
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meaning- Inability to perform mathematical calculations.
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term- ageusia
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meaning- Absence of the ability to taste. Parageusia (pair ah GOO zsa) is an abnormal sense of taste or a bad taste in the mouth.
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term- agnosia
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meaning- Inability to recognize objects visually, auditorily, or with other senses.
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term-agraphia
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meaning-Inability to write.
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term-anosmia
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meaning-Lack of sense of smell.
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term- apraxia
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meaning- Inability to perform purposeful movements or to use objects appropriately.
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term- dyslexia
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meaning- Inability or difficulty with reading and/ or writing.
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term- encephalitis
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meaning- Inflammation of the brain, most frequently caused by a virus transmitted by the bite of an infected mosquito.
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term-meningitis
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meaning-Any infection or inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, most commonly due to viral infection, although more severe strains are bacterial or fungal in nature.
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term- neuritis
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meaning- Inflammation of the nerves.
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term- poliomyelitis
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meaning- Inflammation of the gray matter of the spinal cord caused by a poliovirus. Severe forms cause paralysis.
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term- polyneuritis
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meaning- Inflammation of several peripheral nerves.
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term- radiculitis
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meaning- Inflammation of the root of a spinal nerve.
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term- sciatica
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meaning- Inflammation of the sciatic nerve. Symptoms include pain and tenderness along the path of the nerve through the thigh and leg (Fig.
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term- shingles
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meaning- Acute infection caused by the reactivation of the latent varicella zoster virus (chickenpox), characterized by the development of vesicular skin eruption underlying the route of cranial or spinal nerves; also called herpes zoster (HER pees ZAH ster)
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term- diplegia
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meaning- Paralysis of the same body part on both sides of the body.
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term- hemiparesis
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meaning- Muscular weakness or slight paralysis on the left or right side of the body.
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term- hemiplegia
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meaning- Paralysis on the left or right side of the body
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term-monoparesis
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meaning-Weakness or slight paralysis of one limb on the left or right side of the body.
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term-monoplegia
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meaning-Paralysis of one limb on the left or right side of the body.
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term- paraparesis
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meaning- Slight paralysis of the lower limbs and trunk.
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term- paraplegia
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meaning- Paralysis of the lower limbs and trunk
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term- quadriparesis
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meaning- Weakness or slight paralysis of the arms, legs, and trunk.
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term- quadriplegia
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meaning- Paralysis of arms, legs, and trunk
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