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Neuro Terms
Physical Therapy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Agnosia | inability to interpret information |
| agraphestesia | inability to recognize symbols, letters or numbers traced on the skin |
| agraphia | inability to write do to lesion within brain |
| akinesia | inability to initiate movement, commonly seen in Parkinson's |
| apraxia | inability to perform purposeful learned movements |
| astereognosis | inability to recognize objects by sense of touch |
| Ataxia | inability to perform coordinated movements |
| dysarthria | slurred and impaired speech |
| diplopia | double vision |
| dysdiadochokinesia | inability to perform rapidly alternating movements |
| dysmeteria | inability to control the range of a movement and force of muscular activity |
| dysphagia | inability to swallow properly |
| emotional lability | inability to control emotions and outburts of laughing/crying that are inconsistent with the situation |
| hemiballism | involuntary and violent movement of a large body part |
| pariesis | condition of muscle weakness |
| plegia | a condition of partial or full paralysis |
| homonymous hemianopsia | the loss of right or left half of the field of vision in both eyes |
| ideational apraxia | inability to formulate an initial motor plan and sequence tasks where priproceptive input necessary for movement is impaired |
| ideomotor apraxia | person can plan movement, but unable to voluntarily perform it |
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