General Vocabulary

Question 1

Agnosia

Answer 1

Inability to recognize familiar objects with one form of sensation

Question 2

Akinesia

Answer 2

Inability to initiate movement. Parkinson’s Disease

Question 3

Aphasia

Answer 3

Disturbance in language that results in errors in word choice, comprehension, syntax

Question 4

Wernicke’s Aphasia

Answer 4

Receptive, fluent, and severe disturbances in auditory comprehension. Reading, writing and word recognition are impaired

Question 5

Broca’s Aphasia

Answer 5

Expressive, non-fluent, and severe difficulty in verbal expression with impairment in object naming and writing ability. Rt hemiplegia is common

Question 6

Apraxia

Answer 6

Inability to perform movements that were previously learned. This occurs without absence of strength, coordination, sensation, or comprehension

Question 7

Astereognosis

Answer 7

Inability to recognize objects by TOUCH alone

Question 8

Asynergia

Answer 8

inability to move muscles together in coordinated manner

Question 9

Athetosis

Answer 9

Slow, involuntary, worm-like, twisting motions. Common with Cerebral Palsy

Question 10

Causalgia

Answer 10

a painful, burning sensation. Common with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Question 11

Ideational Apraxia

Answer 11

Person no longer gets the “idea” of how to do a routine task (washing hands)

Question 12

Ideomotor Apraxia

Answer 12

Person cannot do a task on command but can do it spontaneously

Question 13

Chorea

Answer 13

Rapid, involuntary, jerky movements. Common with Huntington’s chorea.

Question 14

Clonus

Answer 14

Rhythmic involuntary oscillation of muscle and joint in response to sudden stretch in patients with upper motoneuron disease. Typically at ankles, wrists, and/or jaw

Question 15

Decerebrate Rigidity

Answer 15

Involuntary contraction of the extensor muscles of the upper and lower extremities because of an injury in the brainstem above the vestibular nucleus and below the red nucleus.

Question 16

Decorticate Rigidity

Answer 16

Involuntary contraction of the flexor muscles of the UE and extension of the LE because of an injury in the brainstem above the red nucleus.

Question 17

Delirium

Answer 17

temporary confusion

Question 18

Dementia

Answer 18

Loss of memory or intellectual functioning. Common with Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, infarctions, chronic alcoholism.

Question 19

Dysdiadochokinesia

Answer 19

Impaired ability to perform rapid alternating movement. Associated with cerebellar disorders

Question 20

Dysmetria

Answer 20

Inability to judge distances. Especially with cerebellar dysfunctions

Question 21

Electromyography (EMG)

Answer 21

Used to assess alpha motor neuron integrity and provides analysis of resting and active contractions of muscles. Useful for diagnosis/prognosis of LMN injury/disease or myopathy

Question 22

Herpes Zoster

Answer 22

Shingles. A painful inflammation of the posterior root ganglion caused by a virus. This leads to vesicles (fluid filled sacs) along the course of a dermatome

Question 23

Horner’s Syndrome

Answer 23

Sx=ptosis, miosis, ipsilateral anhidrosis. Occurs secondary to damage to the sympathetic tract

Question 24

Hypermetria/hypometria

Answer 24

Overshooting target/Undershooting target

Question 25

Somatagnosia

Answer 25

lack of awareness of the relationship of one’s own body parts or body parts of others

Question 26

Anosognosia

Answer 26

Denial, neglect, and lack of awareness of presence or severity of one’s paralysis