MES Word of the Day Flashcards
Also known as folate or vitamin B9 which helps the body make healthy RBCs and is used to help the baby’s brain, skull and spinal cord develop properly in pregnancy to avoid developmental problems (NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS) such as Spina Bifida.
FOLIC ACID
A drug that is used to treat EPILEPSY. It is also taken for nerve pain, which can be caused by different conditions, including diabetes and shingles.
GABAPENTIN
A mental condition in which a person repeatedly seeks medical attention for falsified exaggerated or self-inflicted physical symptoms.
MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME
A syndrome characterized by the inability to manifest emotions that causes a reduced vocal, facial and gestural expressiveness, as well as an alteration of sexual and nutritional activity.
APATHETIC-AKINETIC-ABULIC SYNDROME
Lack of awareness, denial of a paretic extremity or denial of illness.
ANOSOGNOSIA
Code: ANOOO?? sog NOOOOO!
A condition in which a person who has a brain injury seems indifferent to the existence of their impairment.
ANOSODIAPHORIA
A syndrome characterized by psychiatric symptoms and personality features including affective dysregulation, irritability and impulsiveness; anxiety and obsessive-compulsive symptoms; paranoia, abnormal patterns of social interaction, grandiosity and schizophrenic-like symptoms.
TEMPOROLIMBIC SYNDROME
A type of agnosia involving loss or impairment of the ability to recognize parts of one’s own body. Also referred to as SOMATOGNOSIA or BODY AGNOSIA.
AUTOPAGNOSIA
Another name given to De Quervain’s disease where inflammation and thickening of the synovial lining of the common sheath of the APL and EPB tendons.
It is the most common cause is chronic overuse of the wrist.
HOFFMAN DISEASE
A neurosycholigical disorder characterized by the tetrad of agraphia, acalculia, finger agnosia, and left-right disorientation.
It is a lesion is in the LEFT PARIETAL LOBE in the region of the ANGILAR GYRUS.
GERSTMANN’S SYNDROME
A neurological disorder in which a fluid-filled cyst (syrinx) forms within the spinal cord. Patients complain of pain, muscle weakness and atrophy especially in hands and arms, temperature insensitivity in the upper limbs, spasticity or stiffness in lower limbs and progressive scoliosis.
SYRINGOMYELIA
A rare extraarticular manifestation of seropositive RA characterized by neutropenia and splenomegaly.
FELTY’S SYNDROME
Remember: SLLAANT
A disorder where someone acquires an excessive number of items and stores them in a chaotic manner, usually resulting in unmanageable amounts of clutter.
HOARDING DISORDER
A mental disorder that causes persistent, intense focus , shame and anxiety over perceived body defects, often resulting in many cosmetic procedures to try to ‘fix’ the perceived flaw.
BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDER
Damage to the inner part of the brain (white matter). Children who were born prematurely are at higher risk fir PVL.
One of the most apparent symptoms of moderate to severe periventricular leukomalacia is SPASTIC DIPLEGIA.
PERIVENTRICULAR LEUKOMALACIA
