PSG: Polysomnography - Pathology
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- Paralysis
- Complete or partial loss of function in any part of the body
- Vertigo
- A disorder of the inner ear which causes dizziness
- Syncope
- Loss of consciousness resulting from insufficient blood flow to the brain
- Seizures
- Abnormal electrical discharges in the brain
- Twitch
- Brief spasmodic muscular contraction
- Tremor
- A trembling or shaking
- Clonus
- Series of alternating contractions and partial relaxations of a muscle
- Myoclonus
- Irregular involuntary contraction of a muscle
- Tone
- A state of partial contraction that is characteristic of normal muscle
- Atonic
- Lack of physiological tone of a contractile organ