Nervous System Vocab

Question 1

Analgesia

Answer 1

Without sensitivity to pain

Question 2

Anesthesia

Answer 2

Without feeling or sensation

Question 3

Aneurysm

Answer 3

Localized widening and weakness of the wall of the artery

Question 4

Aphasia

Answer 4

Inability to communicate thru speech

Question 5

Ataxia

Answer 5

Without muscular coordination

Question 6

Central nervous system

Answer 6

Contains the brain and spinal cord

Question 7

Concussion

Answer 7

Loss of consciousness resulting from a blow to the head

Question 8

Coma

Answer 8

A deep sleep from which a person cannot be roused and doesn’t respond to pain stimuli

Question 9

Craniotomy

Answer 9

Incision into the skull

Question 10

Dyslexia

Answer 10

Impairment of the ability to read

Question 11

Efferent nerves

Answer 11

Transmits impulses from the brain to the body

Question 12

Gait

Answer 12

A walking style

Question 13

Meninges

Answer 13

Membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord

Question 14

Neuralgia

Answer 14

Nerve pain

Question 15

Neuritis

Answer 15

Inflammation of a nerve

Question 16

Occlusion

Answer 16

Blockage

Question 17

Palliative

Answer 17

Soothing. Provides a patient with care to keep them comfortable

Question 18

Paraplegia

Answer 18

Impairment or loss of movement in the lower part of the body

Question 19

Peripheral nervous system

Answer 19

Cranial and spinal nerves

Question 20

Quadriplegia

Answer 20

Paralysis of all 4 extremities and the trunk of the body

Question 21

Sciatica

Answer 21

Inflammation of the sciatic nerve

Question 22

Shunt

Answer 22

A tube that diverts body fluid from one cavity to another

Question 23

Syncope

Answer 23

Fainting

Question 24

Thrombosis

Answer 24

Abnormal condition of clot formation

Question 25

Afferent nerves

Answer 25

Sensory nerves that send impulses from the body to the brain