Neuro Terms

Front 1

Anisocorial

Back 1

inequal pupil size. Cause can be a lesion, ICPor injury to the mid-brain

Front 2

Agnosia

Back 2

Inability to determine meaning or significance of sensory stimulus
Cause = Cerebral cortex lesion

Front 3

Apraxia

Back 3

Inability to perform learned movements/defect in motor planning.
Cause = Cerebral cortex lesion

Front 4

Aphasia

Back 4

Loss of language comprehension, expression or both.
Cause = cerebral cortex lesion

Front 5

Analgesia

Back 5

Loss of pain sensation.
Cause = Lesion in the thalamus, lack of or damage to sensory nerve endings,

Front 6

Hyperesthesia

Back 6

Increase in sensation
cause = lesions in the spinal cord, thalamus, sensory cortex or peripheral sensory nerve

Front 7

Hypoesthesia

Back 7

Decrease in sensation.
cause = lesions in the spinal cord, thalamus, sensory cortex or peripheral sensory nerve

Front 8

Anosognosia

Back 8

Inability to recognize body defect or disease
Cause = lesion in the right parietal cortex/right brain stroke

Front 9

Astereognosis

Back 9

Inability to recognize form of object by touch
Cause = Lesion in pariatal cortex

Front 10

Ataxia

Back 10

Lack of coordination of movement
Cause = lesion in sensory or motor pathways or the cerebellum and anti-seizure/sedatives/hypnotic drug toxicities

Front 11

Deplopia

Back 11

Double vision
cause = lesion of extra occular muscles, cellerbellar damage

Front 12

Dysarthria

Back 12

Loss of mechanics of speech. Meaning and comprehension is maintained.
Cause = Anti-seizure drugs, sedatives/hypnotic drugs toxicity. Lesion in cerelbellum

Front 13

Dyskinesia

Back 13

Impairment of voluntary movement. resulting in fragment or incomplete movement.
Cause: disorder of the basal ganglia. Reaction to psychotropic drugs.

Front 14

Dysphagia

Back 14

Difficulty swallowing
Causes = lesion of cranial nerves IX and X.

Front 15

Homonymous Hemianopsia

Back 15

Loss of vision in one side of the visual field.
cause = injury to optic track or occipital cortex

Front 16

Hemiplegia

Back 16

Paralysis of one side. Cause = storke or other lesion

Front 17

Nystagmus

Back 17

Jerking or bobbing of the eyes as the track a moving object.
cause = lesions in the cerebellum, brain stem, vestibular system, anti-seizure/sedative/hypnotic toxicity

Front 18

Ophthalmoplegia

Back 18

Paralysis of eyeball movement
Cause = lesion in brain stem or Cn III, IV, VI

Front 19

Opisthotonus

Back 19

Extreme arching of the back with retraction of the head
Cause = meningitis, tonic phase of a grand mal seizure

Front 20

Papilla edema

Back 20

Choke disc, swelling of the optic nerve head
Cause = IICP