What is crani/o (skull) -cele (hernia)
congenital gap in the skull with hurniation of brain substance.
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Encephalitis...
What is encephal/o (brain) -itis (inflammation)
Inflammation of the brain.
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What does hydr/o mean?
What is water
200
Suffix for madness is...
What is -mania
200
Radicul/o is...
What is root or nerve root
200
Narcolepsy is...
What is narc/o (stupor) -lepsy (seizure)
Syndrome characterized by recurrent uncontrollable seizures of drowsiness and sleep.
200
Kleptomania
What is klept/o (steal) -mania (madness)
Disorder characterized by a recurrent failure to resist impulses to steal objects not for immediate use or their monetary value.
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Par- means...
What is abnormal
300
-lepsy is...
What is seizure
300
encephal/o is...
What is brain
300
Violent shaking up or jarring of the brain
What is cuncussion
300
Chracterized by recurrent failure to resist impulses to set fires
What is pyromania
400
Somn- means...
What is sleep
400
-phasia is...
What is speech
400
narc/o is..
What is stupor
400
Somnambulism is...
What is somn- (sleep) ambul/o (to walk) -ism (condition of)
Known as sleepwalking. the condition of walking without awakening.
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aphasia
What is the loss of the ability to speak or write or comprehend the written or spoken word
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Another prefix for with out is...
What is a-
500
-phobia is..
What is abnormal fear
500
Klept/o means..
What is steal
500
A collection of trapped blood in the tissue of the brain..
What is hematoma
500
cerebrovascular
What is a stroke is damage to the brain that occurs when the blood flow to the brain is disrupted because a blood vessel supplying it either is blocked or ruptured.