nervous system lab

Question 1

afferent pupillary defect

Answer 1

continued pupillary dilation instead of constriction in the eye with a prechiasmic optic pathway lesion in response to shining

Question 2

agraphia

Answer 2

loss of ability to express oneself in writing due to central lesion

Question 3

akathisia

Answer 3

inability to sit down because the thought of doing so causes severe anxiety, pt feels restless and urgent need of movement

Question 4

akinesia

Answer 4

complete or partial loss of muscle movement

Question 5

antalgia

Answer 5

behavior sued to limit pain

Question 6

aphasia

Answer 6

inability to express oneself through speech, or loss of verbal comprehesion

Question 7

ataxia

Answer 7

impaired ability coordinate muscular movement usually associated with staggering gait and postural imbalance

Question 8

athetosis

Answer 8

slow, twisting, writhing movements with larger amplitude than chorea, commonly inolving hands

Question 9

cerebral palsy

Answer 9

general name for large group of persisting nonprogessive motor disorders apparent in young kids and resultign from brain damage

Question 10

clonus

Answer 10

rapidly alternatin ginvoluntary contractiona nd relaxation of skeletal muscles

Question 11

dysarthria

Answer 11

inability to pronounce or articular words

Question 12

dysdiachokinesia

Answer 12

inability ot quickly substitue antagonistic motor impulses to produce antagonistics musclar movments. inability to perform rapid alternating movments

Question 13

dysesthesia

Answer 13

sensations of pins and needles or crawling

Question 14

dyskinesia

Answer 14

defect in voluntary movement, usually used in relation to various extrapyramidal disodrders

Question 15

dysphasia

Answer 15

impairment of speech resultign from brain lesion

Question 16

dysphonia

Answer 16

difficulty in speaking, hoarseness, often leaterd to weakness of laryngeal muscles which sound production is impaired

Question 17

dystonia

Answer 17

impaired or disordered tonicity, especially in muscle tone

Question 18

fluent aphasia

Answer 18

fluet effortless spech that is completly incomprehesile

Question 19

graphesthesia

Answer 19

ability to recognize sympbols, shapes, numbers and lettered traced on skin

Question 20

hemianopia

Answer 20

blindness for half the field of vision in one or both eyes

Question 21

hemiballismus

Answer 21

jerking and twitching movements of one side of body

Question 22

myelitits

Answer 22

inflammation of spinal cord or bone marrow

Question 23

myelopathy

Answer 23

any pathological condition of spinal cord

Question 24

myoclonus

Answer 24

twitching or clonic spasm of a muscle or group of muscles

Question 25

myopathy

Answer 25

any disease or abnormal condition of straited muscle

Question 26

non fluent aphasia

Answer 26

cannot express oneself using language

Question 27

paresis

Answer 27

partial or incomplete paralysis

Question 28

paresthesisa

Answer 28

unusual sensation such as numbness, tingling, or buring

Question 29

sterognosis

Answer 29

ability to recornize form of solid objects by touch