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51 Cards in this Set
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Rhiz/o
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Nerve root
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What condition has the following signs and symptoms deep, prolonged unconsciousness, head injury, neurologic disease, acute hydrocephalus, intoxication or metabolic abnormalities?
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coma
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What is the infection or inflammation of the membranes covering the brain or spinal cord?
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Meningitis
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slight paralysis of the lower limbs and trunk
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Paraparesis
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What is the method of pain control that is affected by the application of electrical impulses to the skin
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Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation TENS
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Migraine
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Headache of vascular origin
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Medical term for fainting
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syncope
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What examination does the MA perform to detect pathogens and abnormalities in CNS fluid?
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Cerebral spinal fluid CSF
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Lepsy
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Seizure
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Brain
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Encephel/o
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Hemi-
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Half
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What is the suture of a severe nerve called
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Neurorrhaphy
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What measures and record the number of function while the patient is asleep
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Polysomnography
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Medical term for dizziness
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Vertigo
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Myel/o
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spinal cord, bone marrow
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What is a motor function disorder as a result of permanent, non progressive brain defect lesion caused perinatally?
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Cerebral Palsy
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What does CNS stand for
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Central nervous system
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What is acute virus infection caused by chicken pox
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Shingles
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What is a condition of abnormal fluid accumulation in the ventricles of the brain
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Hydrocephalus
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Define crebrovascular accident
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Ischimia of cerebral tissue with sequele that may include paralysis, weakness, speech defects or sensory changes that last more than 24 hours(stroke)
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Define -plegia
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Paralysis
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Define mono-
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one
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Define para-
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abnormal
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Dur/o
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Dura Mater
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Quadri-
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four
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which nerve has the sense of smell
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Olfactory
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what is another name for glia cell
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Neurolgia
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the functional unit of the nervous system is
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Neuron
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list symptoms that are sign of neurological disorder
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Vertigo, Paralysis, Headache
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What is the autonomic nervous system?
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is part of the pheripheral nervous system, controls involuntary actions of smooth muscles, cardiac muscle and gland, has two divisions
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What is Tic Doulourex
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Neurolgia of the fifth cranial nerve
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which division of the nervous system is the fight or flight response comes from?
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sympathetic nervous system
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Name the part of the brain responsible for thinking and voluntary activity
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cerebrum "Largest portion of brain"
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what are Gyri
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folds or convolution in the brain
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how many pairs of cranial nerves do you have
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12
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Name the lobes of the brain
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Frontal, temporal, Occipital
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name the reflexes of the body
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corneal, patellar, plantar
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Degeneration of the myelin sheath is what neurological condition
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multiple sclerosis
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name the part of the brain that signal the anterior pituitary gland to release is hormones
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pons
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which part of the brain is responsible for equilibrium and controlling fine motor skills
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cerebellum " little brain "
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What is hemiplegia paralysis
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Only one side of the body
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Name the part of the CNS
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brain, spinal cord, meninges
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synapse
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Space between the end of one neuron and the beginning of the next Neuron
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How many pairs of spinal nerves are there
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31
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During a lumber puncher the needle is inserted between the_____________Lumbar vertebrae.
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3rd and 4th
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when you have activated dormant virus of chickenpox you get what
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Herpes zoster, jingles
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the _______ meninges have a spider Web appearance
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Arachnoid
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Pill-rolling motion is characterized by which neurological condition
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Parkinson's disease
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what do sensory neurons do
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transmit nerve impulses to the central nervous system CNS
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-paresis
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sloght paralysis
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kinesi/o
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movement
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