Adv. Medical Term – Chapter 10

PERTAINING TO MUSCLES AND NERVES

PORTION OF THE BRAIN THAT CONTROLS THE PITUITARY GLAND, WATER BALANCE, AND BODY TEMPERATURE:

INABILITY TO SPEAK

PARALYSIS OF FOUR EXTREMITIES

CEREBRAL ANEURYSM, THROMBOSIS, OR HEMORRHAGE CAN BE THE CAUSE OF

DISORDER OF READING, WRITING, AND LEARNING IS

THE COMBINING FORM REFERRING TO THE ENTIRE BRAIN

HOW MANY POUNDS DOES A BRAIN WEIGH

SOMN/O AND SOMN/I ARE COMBINING FORMS MEANING

KINESIOLOGY IS THE STUDY OF

FAST MOVEMENT

NARC/O IS A COMBINING FORM MEANING

WHICH COMBINING FORM MEANS BODY

___________ PASSES NUTRIENTS FROM BLOOD TO NEURONS

BREATHING, BODY TEMPERATURE, AND HEART RATE ARE CONTROLLED BY THE

THE SPINAL CORD IS PART OF THE _______________NERVOUS SYSTEM

THERE ARE 31 PAIRS OF ___________ NERVES

MOTOR NERVES CONDUCT MOTOR IMPULSES FROM THE ___________ TO MUSCLES AND GLANDS

THE HYPOTHALAMUS IS ABOVE THE THALAMUS

WHICH TERM DESCRIBES DIFFICULT ARTICULATION

DELIRIUM IS DEFINED AS ________________

NEURALGIA DESCRIBES _________________

HEMIPARESIS IS PARALYSIS OF THE RIGHT HALF OF THE BODY

THE MEDICAL TERM FOR FAINTING IS ________

TACTILE REFERS TO ______________

ALZHEIMER DISEASE IS AN IRREVERSIBLE DETERIORATION OF STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN THE BRAIN

A CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT IS COMMONLY KNOWN AS A ________________

A TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK (MINI STROKE) IS OFTEN A PREDECESSOR TO

RECURRENT SEIZURES ARE CHARACTERISTIC OF

SHINGLES IS A VIRAL DISEASE THAT AFFECTS THE PERIPHEAL NERVES

NAUSEA, VOMITING, OR DISORDERED VISION OFTEN ACCOMPANIES

NARCOLEPSY IS A DISORDER CHARACTERIZED BY

___________ IS PARALYSIS OF ALL FOUR LIMBS

A NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY SUCH AS LACK OF THIAMINE OFTEN CAUSES

THE ABBREVIATION FOR ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM IS

THE PATHOLOGIC RESPONSE TO STIMULATION OF THE PLANTAR SURFACE OF THE FOOT INDICATED WHEN THE TOES CURL UPWARD IS KNOWN AS

SLEEP DISORDERS CAN BE DIAGNOSED BY

_________IS THE INCISION INTO THE SKULL TO APPROACH THE BRAIN.

ANTIDEPRESSANT

HYPNOTIC

ANTICONVULSANT

SEDATIVE

ANALGESIC

WHICH DRUG IS USED TO PREVENT ISCHEMIC STROKE

CATATONIA IS DESCRIBES AS

HEARING VOICES IN ONES'S HEAD IS AN EXAMPLE OF

A PERSON WITH APATHY DEMONSTRATES A/AN

MANIC DEPRESSION IS ALSO KNOWN AS

SCHIZOPHRENIA IS DEFINED AS A/AN

PSYCHOSIS IS DEFINES AS A/AN

EFFORTS TO CHANGE UNWANTED PATTERNS OF THINKING ARE PART OF WHICH THERAPY

WHICH AGENT QUIETS NERVOUSNESS

ABBREVIATION FOR TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK

THREE PROTECTIVE MEMBRANES SURROUNDING THE BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD

OUTERMOST LAYER OF THE MENINGES

LOWER PORTION OF THE BRAIN; CONTROLS BLOOD PRESSURE, HEART BEAT AND RESPIRATION

DEGENERATION OF NERVES IN THE BRAIN LEADING TO TREMORS, SHUFFLING GAIT, AND MUSCLE STIFFNESS (MASK-LIKE FACIAL EXPRESSION); DOPAMINE IS DEFICIENT IN THE BRAIN

BRANCHING FIBER THAT IS FIRST PART OF A NEURON TO RECEIVE A NERVOUS IMPULSE

CARRIES MESSAGES TOWARD THE BRAIN FROM RECEPTORS

ANXIOLYTIC DRUGS TREAT

INNERMOST MENINGEAL MEMBRANE

DESTRUCTION OF MYELIN SHEATH; REPLACEMENT BY PLAQUES OF HARD SCAR TISSUE

ELEVATIONS IN THE CEREBRAL CORTEX

FAINTING

METAL CONFUSION DUE TO DISTURBANCES IN CEREBRAL FUNCTION CAUSED BY FEVER, SHOCK OR DRUG OVERDOSE

ACETYLCHOLINE IS AN EXAMPLE OF THIS CHEMICAL RELEASED INTO A SYNAPSE

MASS OF BLOOD UNDER THE DURA MATER

SLOW MOVEMENT

DETERIORATION OF MENTAL CAPACITY (DEMENTIA) BEGINNING IN MIDDLE AGE; CEREBRAL CORTEX ATROPHY, MICROSCOPIC NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES

SEIZURE OF SLEEP

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS IS ALSO KNOWN AS

REMOVAL OF A HERNIATED DISK