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Health Assessment2
My health assessment quiz terms
Question | Answer |
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Agnosia | loss of ability to recognize importance of sensory impressions |
Agraphia | loss of ability to express thoughts in writing |
Amnesia | loss in memory |
Analgesia | loss of pain sensation |
Aphasia | loss of ability to preform movements |
Ataxia | inability to preform coordinated movements |
Athetosis | Bizarre, slow, twisting, wreathing movements. |
Chorea | Sudden Rapid Jerky movements |
Clonus | rapidly alternating involuntary contraction and relaxation |
coma | State of profound unconsciousness |
Decerebrate Rigidity | Arms stiffly extended, adducted, internaly rotated |
Decorticate rigidity | arms adducted and flexed |
Dysarthria | Imperfect articulation of speech |
Dysphasia | Impaired speech |
Extinction | disappearance of conditioned response |
Fasciculation | loss of muscle tone |
Graphesthesia | ability to "read" a number by having it traced on the skin |
Hemiplegia | loss of motor power on one side of the body |
Lower motor neuron | Motor neuron in the peripheral nervous system |
Myoclonus | rapid sudden jerk in the muscle |
Nuchal ridigity | stiffness in cervical neck area |
Nystagmus | back and fourth oscillation of the eyes |
Opisthotonos | prolonged arching of back |
Paralysis | decreased or loss of motor function due to problem |
Paraplegia | impared body function in the lower half of the body |
Paresthesia | abnormal sensation |
Point localization | ability to discriminate exactly where on the body was touched |
Proprioception | sensory information concerning body movements |
Spasticity | continuous resistance to stretching by a muscle due to abnormally increased tension |
Stereognosis | ability to recognize objects by feeling their forms, size, weight |
Tic | repetitive twitching of a muscle group at the wrong time |
Treamor | involuntary contraction of opposing muscle groups resulting in rhythmic movements |
Two point discrimination | Ability to distinguish between the separation of 2 pinpricks on the skin |
Upper motor neuron | Nerve located entirely within the central nervous system |