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MT Ch.8

  1. crani/o
    skull
  2. encephal/o
    entire brain
  3. gli/o
    glue
  4. gnos/o
    knowing
  5. lex/o
    word
  6. myel/o
    spinal cord or bone marrow
  7. phas/o
    speech
  8. phor/o
    carry
  9. thym/o
    mind
  10. phren/o
    mind
  11. schiz/o
    split
  12. somat/o
    body
  13. somn/o
    sleep
  14. somn/i
    sleep
  15. hypn/o
    sleep
  16. spondyl/o
    vertebra
  17. stere/o
    3d
  18. top/o
    place
  19. ventricul/o
    pouch
  20. cata-
    down
  21. -asthenia
    weakness
  22. -paresis
    slight paralysis
  23. -plegia
    paralysis
  24. frontal lobe
    voluntary
  25. parietal lobe
    sensations
  26. temporal lobe
    hear, tste, smell
  27. occipital lobe
    vision
  28. cerebral cortex
    higher mental
  29. thalamus
    relaying sensory to cortex
  30. diencephalon
    relaying sensory to cortex
  31. gyri
    mounds
  32. sulci
    shallow grooves
  33. fissures
    deep grooves
  34. cerebrum
    largest part
  35. cerebellum
    control and coordination
  36. brainstem
    breathing, rates, temp
  37. peripheral nervous sytem
    nerves branch out from central
  38. sensory nerves
    afferent nerves
  39. motor nerves
    efferent nerves
  40. sympathetic nervous system
    preping the body
  41. parasympathetic nervous system
    restoring the boyd after stress
  42. aphasia
    impaired b/c of localized brain injury
  43. dysphagia
    impaired b/c of localized brain injury
  44. delirum
    mental confusion
  45. demnetia
    impaired of intellectual
  46. flaccid paralysis
    defective muscle b/c of nerve lesion
  47. seizure
    disturbances in brain function
  48. convulsion
    pull together
  49. syncope
    faint
  50. paresthesia
    abnormal sensation of numbness
  51. agnosia
    loss of neurologic function
  52. astereognosis
    can't judge the form by coin
  53. atopognosis
    can't find sensation properly 
  54. amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 
    deterioration of motor never cells
  55. cerebral thrombosis
    clot in blood vessel in brain
  56. cerebral embolism
    blocked blood vessel in brain by embolus
  57. cerebrovascular accident
    stroke
  58. transient ischemic attack 
    loss of blood flow 
  59. tonic-clonic seizure
    major motor seizure
  60. absence seizure
    loss of consciousness w/o motor involvement 
  61. glioma
    turmor of glial cells
  62. herpes zoster
    virus affects peripheral 
  63. Huntington chorea
    hereditary disease of CNS 
  64. migraine HA
    paroxysmal attacks
  65. multiple sclerosis
    disease CNA by demyelination
  66. myasthenia gravis
    autoimmune disorder
  67. myelitis
    inflammation of spinal cord
  68. anencephaly
    defect in closure of the cephalic portion of the neural tube 
  69. spina bifida
    absence of vertebral arches 
  70. Parkinson disease
    progression degeneration of brainstem and less dopamine 
  71. plegia
    paralysis 
  72. poliomyelitis 
    inflammation of gray matter of spinal cord caused by a virus 
  73. affect
    your mood
  74. catatonia
    unresponsiveness to outside
  75. delusion
    no reality 
  76. mania
    abnormal elation
  77. neurosis
    anxiety
  78. pyschosis
    distort reality 
  79. major affective disorder
    periodic distrubances
  80. unipolar disorder
    periodic disturbances 
  81. dysthymia
    by chronic depression
  82. anorexia
    abnormal perceptions 
  83. bulimia
    limit digestion 
  84. schizophrenia
    brain chem causes distorted perception of one's environment
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