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Organs
Combining Forms
Disease and Disorder Terms
Surgical Terms
Diagnostic and Complementary Terms
100
Contained within the cranium, the center for coordinating body activities.
What is the brain?
100
cerebell/o
What is cerebellum?
100
Inflammation of the meninges.
What is meningitis?
100
Excision of a ganglion (also called gangliectomy).
What is ganglionectomy?
100
Radiographic imaging of the blood vessels in the brain (after an injection of contrast medium).
What is a cerebral angiography?
200
Literally means bridge. It connects the cerebrum with the cerebellum and brainstem.
What is the pons?
200
hard, dura mater
What is dur/o?
200
mononeuropathy
What is a disease affecting a single nerve (such as carpal tunnel syndrome)?
200
Incision into a nerve.
What is neurotomy?
200
Record of the electrical impulses of the brain.
What is a electroencephalogram (EEG)?
300
Thin inner layer of the meninges.
What is the pia mater?
300
radic/o
What is nerve root (proximal end of a peripheral nerve, closest to the spinal cord)?
300
Softening of the brain.
What is encephalomalacia?
300
neurorrhaphy
What is the suture of a nerve?
300
Insertion of a needle into the subarachnoid space usually between the third and fourth lumbar vertebrae. It is performed for many reasons, including the removal of cerebrospinal fluid for diagnostic purposes (also called spinal tap).
What is a lumbar puncture (LP)?
400
A nerve cell that conducts nerve impulses to carry out the function of the nervous system. Destroyed neurons cannot be replaced.
What is a neuron?
400
grey matter
What is poli/o?
400
Tumor made up of nerve (cells).
What is neuroma?
400
Surgical repair of a nerve.
What is a neuroplasty?
400
Condition of without speaking (loss or impairment of the ability to speak).
What is aphasia?
500
A group of nerve cell bodies located outside the central nervous system.
What is a ganglion?
500
esthesi/o
What is sensation, sensitivity, feeling?
500
Inflammation of the nerve root, meninges, and spinal cord.
What is rhizomeningomyelitis?
500
Separating a nerve (from adhesions).
What is neurolysis?
500
Softening of the spinal cord.
What is myelomalacia?