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Medical Terminology
100
It receives sensory input, make decisions, and then orders body response
What is the nervous system?
100
Branch of medicine concerned with treating conditions and diseases of the nervous systems by surgical means
What is neurosurgery?
100
Intracranial mass, either benign or malignant
What is a brain tumor?
100
drug that produces a loss of sensation or a loss of consciousness
What is an anesthetic?
100
largest organ in the body and coordinates most body activities
What is the brain?
200
Nerves of the peripheral nervous system
What is the cranial nerves and spinal nerves?
200
provides a pathway for impulses traveling to and from the
What is the function of the spinal cord?
200
A congenital defect in the walls of the spinal canal in which the laminae of the vertebra do not meet or close
What is spina bifida?
200
Image of the brain taken after injection of radioactive isotopes into the circulation
What is a brain scan?
200
Includes both the 12 pairs of cranial nerves and the 31 pairs of spinal nerve
What is the peripheral nervous system (PNS)?
300
four sections of the brain
What is the cerebrum, cerebellum, diencephalon, and brain stem?
300
The watery, clear fluid that provides protection from shock or sudden motion to the brain and spinal cord
What is the cerebrospinal fluid?
300
It involves progressive disorientation, apathy, speech and gait disorientation, and loss of memory
What is Alzheimer’ disease?
300
Drug that promotes sleep
What is hypnotic?
300
A fatty substance that acts as insulation for many axons so that they conduct electrical impulses faster
What is myelin?
400
Two of the most critical areas of the brain the diencephalon contains
What is the thalamus and the hypothalamus?
400
A subdivided division of the Peripheral Nervous System that is involved with the control of involuntary or unconscious bodily functions
What is the Autonomic Nervous System?
400
A specific type of headache characterized by severe head pain, sensitivity to light, dizziness, and nausea
What is a migraine?
400
surgical repair of a nerve
What is neuroplasty?
400
All portions of the nervous system are composed of this
What is the nervous tissue?
500
Three components of the brain stem
What is the midbrain, pons, and medulla oblongata?
500
Are three layers of connective tissue membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord
What is meninges?
500
Eruption of painful blisters on the body along a nerve path
What is shingles?
500
A puncture with a needle into the lumbar area to withdraw fluid for examination and for the injection of anesthesia
What is lumbar puncture?
500
also called motor neurons that carry activity instructions from the central nervous system to muscles or glands out in the body
What is the efferent neurons?