Diseases/Conditions
This is severe brain inflammation that causes edema and nerve cell destruction.
What is Encephalitis?
This influences the function of the heart and lungs, stomach secretions, and the size of the openings in blood vessels.
What is Medulla Oblongata?
When a neuron is stimulated, ions move across the membrane, creating a current that, if large enough, will briefly change the area inside the neuron to be more positive than the outside area.
Nerve
What is neur/o?
What is Computerized Axial Tomography (CAT or CT scan)
This division accelerates activity in the smooth, involuntary muscles of the body's system.
What is Sympathetic Division?
This disorder is characterized by focal or generalized seizures.
What is Epilepsy?
This area is the control center for some of the reflex movements of the eyes, such as blinking and changing the size of the pupil.
What is Midbrain?
Positive inside, negative outside.
What is Depolarization?
Paralysis or stroke
What is -plegia?
An imaging examination that involves the introduction of spinal needle into the spinal canal and the injection of contrast material in the space around the spinal cord and nerve roots using a real-time for of X-ray.
What is Myelography?
This system is considered a processing center that oversees everything that your body does, from your thoughts and feelings to your movements.
What is Central Nervous system?
This is a neurologic disorder characterized by "tics"- the involuntary, rapid, sudden movements that occur repeatedly in the same way.
What is Tourette Syndrome?
This section is responsible for smooth muscle movement, muscle tone, and coordination of sensory impulses with muscular activity, particularly for equilibrium, walking, and dancing.
What is Cerebellum?
A minute space between the dendrites of the next neuron.
What is a Synapse?
Electricity
What is electr/o?
A catheter is inserted into an artery and threaded up to the carotid artery in the neck.
What is Arteriography?
This division reverses the action and slows down activity.
What is Parasympathetic Division?
This is a recurring stroke like event that lasts from a few seconds to hours, then disappears after 12-24 hours. It is a warning sign of a stroke.
What is Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA)?
The brain is protected and supported by surrounding membranes.
What is Meninges?
Negative inside, positive outside.
What is Repolarization?
Brain, Cerebrum
What is Encephal/o, Cerebr/o?
A spinal needle is inserted into the subarachnoid space between the vertebrae of the lower back and CSF is removed for examination.
What is Lumbar Puncture?
This division has two important nerves, the vagus and pelvic nerve.
What is Parasympathetic System
This is a nonprogressive brain injury that occurs during fetal development, perinatally, or in early infancy.
This acts as a relay station for impulses going to and from the brain and those impulses from the cerebellum and other parts of the brain.
What is Thalamus?
Negative inside, positive inside.
What is Normal resting potential?
Meninges
Mening/o
What is Coma Scale?
This system includes 12 pairs of cranial nerves that connect the brain directly to the sense organs, the heart, the lungs, and other internal organs.
What is Peripheral Nervous System?