Chapter 15 Nervous System, Quiz 3, ANSWERS

1. psychosomatic: pertaining to the interrelations of body and mind
2. preictal: occurring before a seizure or attack
3. psychopathy: (any) disease of the mind
4. ataxia: lack of muscle coordination
5. craniocerebral: pertaining to the cranium and cerebrum
6. monopelgia: paralysis of one (limb)
7. neurology: branch of medicine dealing with the nervous system’s function and disorders
8. hyperesthesia: condition of excessive sensitivity (to stimuli)
9. hemiparesis: slight paralysis of half ( right or left side of the body)
10. phrenic: pertaining to the mind
11. tetraplegia: paralysis of four limbs (synonymous with quadriplegia)
12. electroencephalogram: record of the electrical impulse of the brain
13. cerebral angiography: process of x-ray filming of the blood vessels in the brain
14. neuroplasty: surgical repair of a nerve
15. poliomyelitis: inflammation of the gray matter of the spinal cord
16. neurasthenia: nerve weakness
17. meningomyelocele: protrusion of the meninges and spinal cord
18. encephalomalcia: softening of the brain
19. neuralgia: pain in the nerve
20. encephalomyeloradiculitis: inflammation of the brain, spinal cord, and nerve roots

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