CNS appendix A terms
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| show | Phylum in which man is classified
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| show | Subphylum in which man is classified
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| show | Class in which man is classified
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| Primate | show 🗑
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| Homo Sapiens | show 🗑
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| Adenohypophysis | show 🗑
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| show | The posterior pituitary or "pars nervosa"
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| show | Pineal gland (entire structure)
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| show | Pineal gland (body)
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| Embryo | show 🗑
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| Foetus (fetus) | show 🗑
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| show | The newborn infant
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| show | Notched or toothlike
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| show | Arranged like an arch
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| Striae (striatal) | show 🗑
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| show | Meaning "straight"
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| show | Net-like
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| show | a relatively deep groove (infolding)
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| Sulcus | show 🗑
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| show | Tortuous convolution. Usually found between sulci and/or fissures of the cerebrum
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| show | Small page-like gyri of the cerebellum
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| show | As used in neurology, a cluster or group of neuron cell bodies located within the CNS
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| show | A cluster or group of neuron cell bodies within the PNS (a few exceptions exist in the PNS)
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| Neuron | show 🗑
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| Perikaryon | show 🗑
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| Axon | show 🗑
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| Fiber | show 🗑
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| show | Whitish colored PNS structures filled with neuron fibers which innervate the body's parts.
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| show | Literally meaning a "branch". The major branches off of the spinal nerve trunks are called the white ramus, gray ramus, dorsal ramus, ventral ramus, etc.
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| show | name applied to the outer plasma membrane (plasmalemma) of an axon.
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| Vertebral Canal (Neural Canal) | show 🗑
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| show | A tiny channel found within the spinal cord and inferior medulla oblongata.
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| show | Passageway, e.g. - Cerebral Aqueduct of Sylvius
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| show | Thin membrane. Collective term for the arachnoid mater and pia mater.
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| show | To sense the body
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| show | A specific sensory entity, such as gustatory (taste), olfaction (smell), pain, etc.
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| show | The modality of subconscious awareness of body position and muscle movement.
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| Kinesthesia | show 🗑
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| Adrenergic | show 🗑
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| Cholinergic | show 🗑
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| show | A crossing - usually relating to the crossing of optic fibers (e.g. - optic chiasma)
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| show | A crossing - used more liberally to indicate crossing of fibers and tracts in the CNSossing -
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| show | To the opposite side
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| show | On the same side
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| Anterograde | show 🗑
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| Retrograde | show 🗑
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| Fugal | show 🗑
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| Lesion | show 🗑
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| Myelopathy | show 🗑
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| show | Death of cells or tissue
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| Neoplasm (tumor) | show 🗑
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| Malignant | show 🗑
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| Metastatic | show 🗑
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| show | Generally used to mean something of an unknown cause
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| show | To suppress blood supply to an area. Results in abnormal function and may lead to necrosis.
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| Hematoma | show 🗑
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| show | An abnormal dilation of a blood vessel wall and its lumen (forms a blood containing sac)
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| Stroke | show 🗑
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| show | X-ray of blood vessels injected with radiopaque dyes.
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| Myelography | show 🗑
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| Ataxia | show 🗑
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| show | Total or partial loss of normal motor function.
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| show | Inability to communicate by speech, writing, or signs.
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| show | A partial or unusual loss of communicative ability.
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| show | Prefix meaning "old". Similar to but not used interchangeably with Archi- in the CNS.
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| Cauda Equina | show 🗑
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| Cephalgia | show 🗑
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| show | Horn-like projection (cornua is plural)
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| Crus | show 🗑
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| show | The pattern of cell arrangements
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| show | Sickle-shaped (falces is plural)
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| Foramen | show 🗑
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| show | Literally - "glue like". Several CNS cell types are included as glial cells.
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| show | A metric system unit of length meaning "small" (synonymous with micrometer).
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| show | "Lid" or "covering"
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| Pallium | show 🗑
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| Pons | show 🗑
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| show | Blood Brain Barrier
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| CSF | show 🗑
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| CVA | show 🗑
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| show | Transient Ischemic Attack (often precedes the CVA)
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| DRG | show 🗑
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| IVF | show 🗑
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| EEG | show 🗑
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| show | Computerized Axial Topography
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| show | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (utilizes large magnets which rearrange hydrogen molecules)
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| show | Positron Emission Tomography (device using radioactively labeled compunds for functional analysis)
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| show | Medulla Oblongata
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| show | Multiple Sclerosis
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| show | Gamma Aminobutyric Acid (an amino acid which is a common inhibitory CNS neurotransmitter)
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