Neurology Suffixes
-asthenia
cerebr/o
cerebrum
somat/o
body
Motor Control, Some aspects of personality
Frontal Lobe
12 pairs arising from the brain
Cranial Nerves
-lepsy
crani/o
skull
somn/o
sleep
Cerebellum
Number of pairs of spinal nerves
31
-mania
Condition of abnormal impulse toward
gli/o
glue
somat/o
body
Vision
Occipital Lobe
nerves that carry sensory information to the brain
sensory or afferent nerves
-paresis
slight paralysis
hypn/o
sleep
spondyl/o
vertebra
Speech and Hearing
Temporal lobe
nerves that conduct motor impulses from the brain to muscles and glands
motor or efferent nerves
-plegia
myle/o
vertebr/o
vertebra
Sensation, Some aspects of Language
Parietal Lobe
control center for the autonomic nervous system located near the pituitary gland
hypothalamus