Chapter 20- Nervous System Flashcards
Optic
Related to vision or sense of sight
Olfactory
Sense of smell process
Acoustic or auditory
Sense of hearing process
Hypoglossal or sublinqual
Related to under the tongue
Aneurysm
A weakened, dilated, and ballooned part of a vessel
Aphagia
Related to without eating or swallowing
Aphasia
Related to without speech
Asthenia
Related to loss of strength
Ataxia
Related to without muscular coordination
Atonia
Related to without muscular tone
Bradykinesia
Related to slow voluntary movement
Epilepsy
Process of a chronic brain disorder characterized by seizures and loss of consciousness
Grand mal
A type of epileptic seizure involving sudden loss of consciousness and tonic muscular contractions
Petite mal
A type of epileptic seizure involving a milder and briefer epileptic seizure that resembles daydreaming
Hemiparesis
Half or one-sided remarkable/weakness
Hemiplegia
Half or one-sided paralysis
Multiple sclerosis
Condition of a chronic inflammatory disease involving many areas of grey matter hardening which results in numbness, tremor, poor coordination, paresis, speech issues, visual disturbances etc.
Parkinson’s disease
A chronic nervous system disorder characterized by shuffling gait, paresis, frustration, muscular rigidly, poor equilibrium, tremors, and nausea
Postictal
Confusion following a seizure
Quadriparesis
Remarkable weakness of all four limbs
Quadriplegia
Paralysis of all four limbs
Stroke
Brain tissue death due to insufficient O2
Transient ischemic attack
A miniature stroke in which the blood supply within a vessel lumen leading to the brain narrows or becomes blocked with plaque
Cerebrovascular accident
A hemorrhagic stroke
