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16 Cards in this Set
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Burr
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Drill used to create an entry into the cranium
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Central nervous system
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Brain and spinal cord
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Craniectomy
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Permanent, partial removal of skull
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Craniotomy
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Opening of the skull
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Cranium
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That part of the skeleton that encloses the brain
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Diskectomy
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Removal of a vertebral disk
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Electroencephalography
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Recording of the electric currents of the brain by means of electrodes attached to the scalp
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Laminectomy
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Surgical excision of posterior arch of vertebra-includes spinal process
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Peripheral nerves
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12 pairs of cranial nerves, 31 pairs of spinal nerves, and autonomic nervous system; connects peripheral receptors to the brain and spinal cord.
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Shunt
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An artifical passage
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Skull
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Entire Skeletal framework of the head.
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Somatic nerve
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Sensory or motor nerve
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Stereotaxis
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Method of identifying a specific area or point in the brain.
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Sympathetic nerve
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Part of the peripheral nervous system that controls automatic body function and sympathetic nerves activated under stress
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Trephination
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Surgical removal of a disk of bone
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Vertebrectomy
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Removal of vertebra
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