Nerve cell
The Brain
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100
Has finger like projections and a nucleus.
What is a cell body?
100
This is the largest organ in the body and is complex in structure and function.
What is the brain?
100
This means weakness, debility.
What is -asthenia?
100
Herniation of the brain.
What is encephalocele?
100
Condition that causes acute imflammation of the peripheral nerves.
What is Guillain-Barre syndrome?
200
Common glial cell that supports and protects neurons.
What is an astrocyte?
200
This part of the brain regulates heartbeat, body temperature, and fluid balance.
What is the Hypothalamus?
200
This means paralysis of one-half.
What is -paresis?
200
Movement that is slow.
What is bradykinesia?
200
Loss of consciousness due to trauma.
What is a concussion?
300
This part of the nerve cell carry impulses away from the cell body.
What is a dendrite?
300
This part of the brain is considered the "bridge"
What is the Pons?
300
Movement.
What is -Kinesia?
300
Pain in the nerve.
What is neurodynia?
300
Paralysis to the lower trunk and bilateral legs.
What is paraplegia?
400
This type of nerve cell lines the inside cavities of the brain.
What is the Ependymal cell?
400
This part of the brain is the pathway for impulse conduction.
What is the Brainstem?
400
This means coordination, order.
What is -taxia?
400
Incision of the brain.
What is encephalotomy?
400
Disorder characterized by bradykinesia, tremors, and shuffling gate.
What is Parkinson's disease?
500
This unmyelinated space between the segements of the myelin sheath that help speed transmission of impulses.
What is the Node of Ranvier?
500
The stucture of the brain is also known as the interbrain.
What is the Diencephalon?
500
Feeling.
What is -esthesia?
500
Surgical repair of the skull.
What is cranioplasty?
500
Condition caused by the narrowing of the carotid arteries.
What is an Ischemic Stroke?
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