Nerves Clinical Terminology

Question 1

Analgesia

Answer 1

loss of reduction in the ability to sense pain but no loss of consciousness

Question 2

Analgesic

Answer 2

pain relieving drug

Question 3

Anesthesia

Answer 3

loss of feeling

Question 4

Aphasia

Answer 4

disturbance or loss of the ability to use and understand words

Question 5

Apraxia

Answer 5

impairment in the ability to use objects

Question 6

Ataxia

Answer 6

partial or complete inability to coordinate voluntary movements

Question 7

Cerebral palsy

Answer 7

partial paralysis and lack of muscular coordination due to cerebrum damage

Question 8

Coma

Answer 8

unconscious condition

Question 9

Cordotomy

Answer 9

surgical procedure that severs a nerve tract in the spinal cord to relieve pain

Question 10

Craniotomy

Answer 10

surgical procedure that opens part of the skull

Question 11

Electroencephalogram (EEG)

Answer 11

recording of the brain’s electrical activity

Question 12

Encephalitits

Answer 12

inflammation of the brain and meninges, produces drowsiness

Question 13

Epilepsy

Answer 13

disorder of disturbed brain impulses

Question 14

Hemiplegia

Answer 14

paralysis of one side of the body including limbs

Question 15

Huntington disease

Answer 15

inherited disease which causes dance like movements and personality changes

Question 16

Laminectomy

Answer 16

surgical removal of the posterior arch of the vertebrae to relieve a pressing disc

Question 17

Monoplegia

Answer 17

paralysis of a single limb

Question 18

Multiple sclerosis

Answer 18

loss of myelin throughout the brain and spinal cord

Question 19

Neuralgia

Answer 19

sharp, recurring pain associated with a nerve

Question 20

Neuritis

Answer 20

inflammation of the nerve

Question 21

Paraplegia

Answer 21

paralysis of both lower limbs

Question 22

Quadriplegia

Answer 22

paralysis of all four limbs