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Acetylcholine
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a neurotransmitter
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a chemical substance important to the transfer of an impulse across a synapse
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Akinetic
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no movement
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no, not or without kinesis
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analgesia
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no pain
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no, not, without alges/o
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hypalgesia
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diminished pain
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-algia
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pain
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anencephaly
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condition where the brain doesn't develop normally
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-anestesia
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a lack of normal sensation
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aphasia
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no, not or without speech
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-esthesi/o
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feeling or sensation
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kines/o
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movement
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kinesis or kinetic
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movement
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-lepsy
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seizure
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-lex
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word or phrase
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hyperesthesia
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unusually high sensitivity to pain
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bradykinesia
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slow movement
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hyperkinesia
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rapid movement
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akinetic
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no, not or without movement
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neuralgia
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nerve pain
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cephalgia
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headache
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comat/o
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deep sleep or coma
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paresthesia
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abnormal feeling such as burning, prickling, tingling or numbness
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epilepsy
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brain disorder causing seizures
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narcolepsy
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sleep disorder
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Three types of CVA (cerebrovascular accidents)
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Thrombotic (blood clot), embolic (disloged clot) and Hemorrhagic (burst blood vessel)
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-paresis
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slight paralysis or weakness
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hemiparesis
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slight paralysis or weakness that affects only one side of the body
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-phasia
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speech
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cerebell/o
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cerebellum
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cerebellar
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pertains to the cerebellum
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cerebr/o
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cerebrum
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cerebrospinal fluid
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fluid found in the brain and around the spinal cord
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CSF
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cerebrospinal fluid
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cerebral cortex
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sheets of nerve cells that line the cerebrum
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dur/o
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dura mater
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subdural hematoma
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hematoma under the dura mater
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epidural hematoma
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hematoma above the dura mater
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intracerebral hematoma
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hematoma within the brain
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encephal/o
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brain
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encephalitis
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inflammation of the brain
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encephalopathy
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diseased condition of the brain
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gli/o
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glue, parts of the nervous system that support or connect
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glial cell
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connective tissue of the nervous system
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glioblastoma
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malignant tumor
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lept/o
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thin, slender
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leptomeningitis
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meningitis of the arachnoid and pia mater
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mening/o
meningi/o |
membranes or meninges
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meningeal
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pertaining to the meninges
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meningioma
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a slow growing benign tumor in the meninges
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meningomyelocele
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causes spinal bifida, it is a failure of the neural tube to close
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my/o
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muscle
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myoneural
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muscle nerve
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myelogram
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process to view the spinal cord
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poliomyelitis
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a viral disease affecting the gray matter surrounding the spinal cord
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polio
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gray matter
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neur/o
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nerve
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neuropathy
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disease of the nerves
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polyneuritis
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inflammation of many nerves
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pont/o
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pons
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cerebellopontine
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pertains to the pons and the cerebellum
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radicul/o
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nerve root of the spinal nerves
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radilopathy
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disease of the spinal nerve root
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radiculitis
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inflammation of the spinal nerve root
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thalam/o
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thalamus
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thalamic
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pertaining to the thalamus
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thec/o
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sheath or meninges
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intrathecal injection
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injection into the sheath
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vag/o
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vagus nerve; the 10th cranial nerve
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-plegia
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paralysis
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hemiplegia
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paralysis that affects one side as a result of a brain injury
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paraplegia
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paralysis of the legs and lower part of the body
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quadri
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four
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quadriplegia
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paralysis that affects all 4 quadrents or total paralysis
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-praxia
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action or movements
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apraxia
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movements are not purposeful.
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-sthenia
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strength
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neurasthenia
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nervous exhaustion
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syncop/o
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to cut off or cut short
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syncopal
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to faint
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tax/o
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order or coordination
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ataxia
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without coordination
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dura mater
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the first layer of membrane surrounding the brain and spinal cord
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arachnoid membrane
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the second layer of membrane surrounding the brain and spinal cord
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pia mater
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the third layer of membrane surrounding the brain and spinal cord
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name the glial cells
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astrocytes, microglia, oligodendroglia
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purpose of astrocyte
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transports water and salts. regulates what passes from the blood into the nerve cells and creates the BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER
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purpose of the microglia cells
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they are phagocytes that protect neurons from inflammation
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the purpose of oligodendroglia cells
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they form the myelin sheaths that protexs the axons of the CNS
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purpose of the ependymal cell
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they line the membranes within the brain and spinal cord and help to form the CSF
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neuron
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single nerve cell
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dendrite
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branching fibers of the neuron from which messages are sent
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ganglia or ganglion
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collections of nerve cells outside of the brain and spinal cord
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axon
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extends from the body of the nerve cell or neuron and are covered with the myelin sheath
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myelin sheath
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a fatty substance. It give a white appearance to the nerve fibers it covers.
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neurilemma
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covers the myelin sheath of peripheral nerves
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acetylcholine, epinephrine, dopamine and serotonin are examples of
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neurotransmitters
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a SYNAPSE is?
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the space that nerve impulses have to jump to another nerve. neurotransmitters make this possible
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the parenchymal tissue of the nervous system is?
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nerves and neurons
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The stromal tissue of the nervous system is?
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the glia: Astrocytes, Microglia, Oligodendrites
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Folds in the cerebral cortex are called?
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gyri
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Gyri are separated by?
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grooves called sulci
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A plexus is?
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A large network of nerves
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