Vocabulary
Abbreviations
Anatomy & Physiology
Pathology
Labs & Clinical Procedures
100
Collection of nerves at the end of the spinal cord.
What is the Cauda Equina?
100
AD
What is Alzheimer Disease?
100
Two major divisions of the nervous system
What are the Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System?
100
Degenerative disorder of motor neurons in the spinal cord and brainstem.
What is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)?
100
Samples of CSF are examined
What is cerebrospinal fluid analysis?
200
Acetylcholine, dopamine, serotonin, and epinephrine
What are neurotransmitters?
200
BBB
What is Blood Brain Barrier?
200
What nerves carry messages related to changes in the environment
What are sensory (afferent) nerves?
200
Autoimmune neuromuscular disorder characterized by weakness of voluntary muscles.
What is Myasthenia Gravis (MG)?
200
CSF is withdrawn from between two lumbar vertebrae for analysis.
What is a lumbar puncture?
300
Main relay center of the brain
What is the thalamus?
300
TBI
What is Traumatic Brain Injury?
300
How many pairs of cranial and spinal nerves are there?
What are 12 cranial nerves and 31 spinal nerves?
300
Involuntary, twitching, movements, uncontrollable vocal sounds
What is Tourette syndrome?
300
X-ray imaging of the arterial blood vessels in the brain after injection of contrast material
What is cerebral angiography?
400
Canals in the brain that contain CSF.
What are ventricles?
400
MG
What is Myasthenia Gravis?
400
How many meninges are there? Name them
What are three? Dura Mater, Arachnoid Membrane, and Pia mater.
400
Inflammation of the meninges
What is meningitis?
400
Magnetic field and pulses of radiowave energy create images of the brain and spinal cord.
What is a Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI)?
500
Stromal tissue of the brain
What are glial cells?
500
TENS
What is Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation?
500
Name the three centers that the Medulla Oblongata regulates.
What are the Respiratory, Cardiac, and Vasomotor centers?
500
Hereditary disorder marked by degenerative changes in the cerebrum leading to abrupt involuntary movements and mental deterioration.
What is Huntington disease or Huntington chorea?
500
Recording of the electrical activity of the brain.
What is Electroencephalography?
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