Nervous System Ch12 Terminology
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| Central nervous system | show 🗑
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| show | encephal/o
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| Spinal cord | show 🗑
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| show | PNS
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| show | Carry impulses to the brain
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| show | Carry impulses away from the brain
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| Somatic | show 🗑
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| Autonomic | show 🗑
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| Neurons | show 🗑
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| show | (dendr/o)
Projections from the cell body that receive neural impulses.
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| Cell body | show 🗑
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| Axon | show 🗑
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| show | produce myelin
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| Synapse | show 🗑
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| Gila/neuroglia | show 🗑
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| show | (astr/o)
connect neurons and blood vessels
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| show | Cerebrum
Cerebellum
Diencephalon
Brainstem
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| show | cord/o, myel/o
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| show | Largest portion of the brain
cerebral cortex
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| show | speech and motor area
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| Temporal lobe | show 🗑
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| show | touch and taste
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| show | vision
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| show | Thalamus
Hypothalamus
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| show | Midbrain
Reflex center for eye and head movement
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| show | "bridge" between medulla oblongata and the cerebrum
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| show | regulates heart rate, blood pressure and breathing
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| Spinal cord | show 🗑
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| Nerve roots | show 🗑
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| Meninges | show 🗑
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| Dura mater | show 🗑
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| show | Subarachnoid space
contains cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)
CSF also found in ventricles of the brain
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| show | 12 pairs which conduct impulses between the brain and the head, neck, thoracic and abdominal areas
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| Spinal nerves | show 🗑
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| show | Skin Surfaces supplied by a single afferent spinal nerve.
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| show | "fight-or-flight" response
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| show | "rest and digest"
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| show | Loss of memory caused by brain damage or trauma
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| show | Lack of ability to form or understand speech
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| Dysphagia | show 🗑
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| show | disorders of sleep-awake cycles
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| Insomnia | show 🗑
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| Hypersomnia | show 🗑
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| Fasciculation | show 🗑
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| show | Disorder in the manner of walking
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| Neuralgia | show 🗑
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| Paresthesia | show 🗑
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| show | Neuromuscular reaction to abnormal electrical activity within the brain; also called convulsions.
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| show | Fainting
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| show | Dizziness
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| show | inability to perform mathematical calculations
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| show | Inability to recognize objects visually, auditorily or with other senses
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| show | Inability to write
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| Anosmia | show 🗑
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| Apraxia | show 🗑
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| show | Inability or difficulty with reading and/or writing.
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| show | knowledge
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| graph/o | show 🗑
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| show | sense of smell
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| show | purposeful movement
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| lex/o | show 🗑
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| show | Condition of abnormal accumulation of fluid in the ventricles of the brain
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| show | Condition in which the spinal column has an abnormal opening/ herniation that allows protrusion of the meninges and/or the spinal cord.
Aka: Meningocele or Meningomyelocele
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| show | Inherited disease that occurs mainly in people of Eastern European Jewish origin
Enzyme deficiency that results in CNS deterioration
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| Coma | show 🗑
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| show | Serious head injury characterized by loss of consciousness, amnesia, seizures
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| show | head injury of the sufficient force bruise the brain
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| Hematoma | show 🗑
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| Herniated intervertebral disk | show 🗑
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| Alzheimer's disease | show 🗑
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| Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | show 🗑
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| show | (MS)
Neurodegenerative disease characterized be destruction of the myelin sheaths of the CNS neurons.
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| Parkinson disease | show 🗑
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| show | Paralysis of facial nerves
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| show | Group of disorders characterized by some or all of the following: recurrent seizures, sensory disturbances, abnormal behavior and/or loss of consciousness.
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| Narcolepsy | show 🗑
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| Tourette syndrome | show 🗑
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| show | Inflammation of the brain, most frequently caused by a virus transmitted by the bite of an infected mosquito.
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| ***Meningitis | show 🗑
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| show | inflammation of the nerves
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| show | inflammation of several/many peripheral nerves.
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| ***Radiculitis | show 🗑
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| ***Sciatica | show 🗑
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| ***Shingles | show 🗑
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| show | (CVA)
Ischemia of cerebral tissue due to an occlusion (blockage) from thrombus or embolus. Sequelae (an aftereffect of a disease) may include paralysis, weakness, speech defects, sensory changes that last longer than 24 hours or death.
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| show | headache of vascular origin.
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| Transient ischemic attack | show 🗑
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| Paralysis | show 🗑
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| Diplegia | show 🗑
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| show | Paralysis on the left or right side
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| show | Paralysis of one limb
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| show | Paralysis of the lower limbs and trunk
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| Quadriplegia | show 🗑
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| Cerebral angiography | show 🗑
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| Echoencephalography | show 🗑
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| Myelography | show 🗑
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| Positron emission tomography | show 🗑
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| show | (EEG)
record of the electrical activity of the brain.
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| show | (MSLT)
test that consists of a series of short, daytime naps in the sleep lab to measure daytime sleepiness and how fast the patient falls asleep.
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| Polysomnography | show 🗑
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| show | in normal conditions, the dorsiflexion of the great toe when the plantar surface of the sole is stimulated.
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| show | examination of fluid from the CNS to detect pathogens and abnormalities.
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| show | (LP)
Procedure to aspirate CSF (cerebrospinal fluid) from the lumbar subarachnoid space for diagnostic purposes.
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| Craniectomy | show 🗑
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| Craniotomy | show 🗑
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| stereotaxic radiosurgery | show 🗑
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| show | also known as a VP shunt
Procedure to drain fluid from brain ventricles through a shunt or catheter and valve that leads to the abdominal cavity.
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| show | Cutting of a branch of the vagus nerve to reduce the secretion of gastric acid.
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| show | use of anesthesia to prevent sensory nerve impulses from reaching the CNS
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| show | excision of part or all of a nerve
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| show | destruction of a nerve
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| show | surgical repair of a nerve
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| show | suture of a severed nerve
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| show | incision of a nerve
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| show | removal of the atheromatous plaque lining the carotid artery to increase blood flow and leave a smooth surface
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| cordotomy | show 🗑
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| rhizotomy | show 🗑
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| sympathectomy | show 🗑
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| TENS | show 🗑
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| show | amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
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| CVA | show 🗑
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| show | transient ischemic attack
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