Chapter 20

Question 1

sense of smell process

Answer 1

olfactory

Question 2

related to vision or sense of sight

Answer 2

optic

Question 3

related to under the tongue

Answer 3

sublingual

Question 4

produces the ‘fight or flight’ stress response (increases respirations and heart rate)

Answer 4

sympathetic nervous system

Question 5

produces relaxation and eustress (decreases respirations and heart rate)

Answer 5

parasympathetic nervous system

Question 6

a weakened, dilated, and ballooned part of a vessel (that may rupture)

Answer 6

aneurysm

Question 7

related to without eating or swallowing

Answer 7

aphagia

Question 8

related to without speech

Answer 8

aphasia

Question 9

related to loss of strength

Answer 9

asthenia

Question 10

related to without muscular coordination

Answer 10

ataxia

Question 11

related to without muscular tone

Answer 11

atonia

Question 12

related to slow voluntary movement

Answer 12

bradykinesia

Question 13

process of a chronic brain disorder characterized by seizures and loss of consciousness

Answer 13

epilepsy

Question 14

a type of epileptic seizure involving sudden loss of consciousness and tonic muscular contractions

Answer 14

grand mal

Question 15

a type of epileptic seizure involving a milder and briefer epileptic seizure that resembles daydreaming

Answer 15

petite mal

Question 16

half or one-sided weakness

Answer 16

hemiparesis

Question 17

half or one-sided paralysis

Answer 17

hemiplegia

Question 18

the theoretical process that the brain can relearn or adapt through repetition

Answer 18

plasticity

Question 19

condition of a chronic inflammatory disease involving many areas of grey matter hardening which results in numbness, tremor, poor coordination, paresis and other neurological issues

Answer 19

multiple sclerosis or M.S

Question 20

a chronic nervous system disorder characterized by shuffling gait, paresis, frustration, muscular rigidly, poor equilibrium, tremors, and nausea

Answer 20

Parkinson’s disease

Question 21

confusion following a seizure

Answer 21

postical

Question 22

remarkable weakness of all four limbs

Answer 22

quadriparesis

Question 23

paralysis of all four limbs

Answer 23

quadriplegia

Question 24

brain tissue death due to insufficient blood O2

Answer 24

stroke

Question 25

a miniature stroke in which blood supply within the vessel lumen leading to the brain narrows or becomes blocked with plaque (sx: sudden hemiparesis of face, arm & leg; denial; sudden hemiplegia)

Answer 25

transcient ischemic attack or T.I.A.

Question 26

a hemorrhagic stroke (sx; sudden, severe headache) with unknown cause

Answer 26

cerebrovascular accident or C.V.A.