Ch 12 Nervous System
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- conscious
- condition of being awake and aware
- convulsion
- invol. muscle contract
- delirium
- abnormal mental state
- demetia
- progress impair of intellec. function
- focal seizure
- localized epileptic seizure
- grand mal seizure
- severe epileptic seizure
- hemiparesis
- weakness or loss of motion on one side of bdy
- hemiplegia
- paralysis of one side of body
- intrathecal
- pertaining to within meninges
- lethargy
- sluggishness
- palsy
- temp. perm. loss of ability to control mvmt
- paresthesia
- abnorm. sens of burning or tingling
- sciatica
- pain in low back that radiates down the back of the leg caused by pressure on the sciatic nerve
- syncope
- fainting
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- musc. weakness and atrophy due to degeneration of motor neurons
- cerebral aneurysm
- abnormal dilation of bld vessel
- cerebral contusion
- bruising of the brain
- cerebral palsy
- nonprogressive brain damage
- cerebrovascular accident
- stroke
- encephalocele
- congenital gap in the skull w/ brain protruding
- epidural hematoma
- mass of bld in the space outside the dura matter of the brain and spinal cord
- Guillan-BArre
- nerves lose their myelin covering
- Huntington's chorea
- nervous systme, progressive dementia w/ bizarre invol. mvmts
- hydrocephalus
- accum. of cerebrospinal fluid w/in ventricles of brain
- memingioma
- tumor in the meninges
- meningocele
- menengies protrude through opening
- MS
- inflamm disease of central nervous system
- myasthenia gravis
- disease w/ severe musc. weakness and fatique due to insufficient neurotran at synapse
- myelomeningocele
- congenital cond. in which the meninges and sp.cd protrude through an opening in the vertebral column
- narcolepsy
- extreme uncont. desire to sleep
- parkinsons
- nervous syst. w/ fine tremors, musc. weakness, ridgity, shuffling
- reye's
- acute encephalopathy and various organ damage
- shingles
- eruption of vesicles in the trunk of the body along a nerve path
- spina bifida
- defect in the walls of the sp. canal in which the laminae of the vertebra do not meet or close
- SCI
- damage to the sp. cd as a result of trauma
- subdual hematoma
- mass of bld forming beneath the dura matter if the meninges are torn by trauma
- tic douloureux
- painful cond. which trigeminal nerve is affected by pressure or degeneration
- transient ischemic
- temp interference w bld supply to the brain
- cephal
- head
- cerebell
- cerebellum
- cerebr
- cerebrum
- encephal
- brain
- gli
- glue
- mening
- meninges
- myel
- spinal cord
- narc
- stupor
- neur
- nerve
- phas
- speech
- poli
- gray matter
- pont
- pons
- radicul
- nerve root
- thalam
- thalamus
- ventricul
- ventricle
- algesia
- pain, sensitivity
- esthesia
- feeling sensation
- kinesia
- mvmt
- lepsy
- seizure
- paresis
- weakness
- phasia
- speech
- plegia
- paralysis
- sthenia
- strength
- taxia
- musc. coordination