Nervous System Terms
Condition of excessive movement
What is an hyperkinesia?
diabetes mellitus
What disorder is it when the pancreas does not produce insulin to assist in transporting glucose to the body cells
otosclerosis
What is the condition of hardening bones of the ear.
The medical term for farsightedness.
The medical term for nearsightedness.
what is hyperopia?
what is myopia?
Epistaxis
What is a nose bleed
This system is responsible for an increase heart rate (pulse) and an increase blood pressure during stress or crisis?
This system slows heart rate (rest and digest).
What is the sympathic nervous system?
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
A disease that is caused by hyposecretion of hormones from the adrenal gland.
What is Addison's Disease
myringotomy and tympanotomy.
What is to cut into the ear drum or tympanic membrane. Both tympan/ and myring/ mean the same
mydriatic medication
a miotic medication
What medication is used to dilate the pupils
what medication is used to constrict pupils
blood sugar levels below normal
What is hypoglycemia?
hypo=below + glyc= sugar + -emia =blood condition
A brain condition involving progressive disorientation, loss of memory and behavioral changes.
What is Alzheimer's Disease
K+ and Na+
What is Potassium and Sodium
presbycusis
What is old age hearing?
presby/ = old age + cusis = hearing
photophobia
What is excess sensitivity to light
blepharoptosis
What is drooping of eyelid
blephar/= eyelid + o + ptosis= drooping
pertaining to fluid in the brain
What is hydrocephalus?
Hormones
What are chemicals secreted by the endocrine system
The instrument use to record a patient's hearing ability.
The process of recording a patient's hearing.
The record of patients hearing
What is an audiograph?
audi/ = hearing graph = instrument to record
audi/ = hearing graphy = process of recording
audi/= hearing; gram = to record
The process of measuring the intraocular pressure in the eye to rule out glaucoma?
What is tonometry
A viral infection that causes a painful blister like rash along nerve pathways.
What is shingles?
A condition in which the patient exhibits fine tremors, muscular weakness and shuffling gait.
What is Parkinson's Disease
The gland that regulates how much energy is used by the body's cells.
The gland that acts both an exocrine and an endocrine gland.
What is the thyroid gland?
What is the pancreas gland?
When tracing the transmission of sound from the external ear to the brain, the part that comes after the stapes is the:
What is the oval window
Be sure to study sound waves going through the ear.
Dim vision
What is amblyopia
ambly = dull opia = vision
Process of recording an image of the brain?
Process of recording blood vessels of the brain?
What is a encephalography? What is cerebral angiography?