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24 Cards in this Set
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Paresthesia |
Unpleasant sensations arising spontaneously without apparant stimuli. |
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Allodynia |
Perception of nonpainful stimuli as painful. |
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Hyperalgesia |
Painful hypersensitivity to noxious stimuli. |
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Dysesthesia |
Abkormal perception of a sensory stimuli |
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Hyperesthesia |
Increased sensory expirience with a stimulus |
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Hyperpathia |
Augmented painful sensation |
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Sensory ataxia |
Difficulty in the coordination of limbs that results from loss of sensory input, particularly proprioception |
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Lhermitte sign |
Electric shock like paraesthesia radiating down the spine and often into the arms and legs, produced by flexion and of the cervical spine. |
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Multiple mononeuropathies |
Back (Definition) |
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Polyneuropathy with pre-dominant motor manifestations |
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Neuropathy with autonomic nervous system involvement |
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Polyneuropathy with pre-dominant upper limb involvement |
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Neuropathies with facial nerve involvement |
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Nerve biopsy considered |
Back (Definition) |
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Hereditary peripheral neuropathies |
Back (Definition) |
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Antibodies in PN |
Back (Definition) |
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Length dependent peripheral neuropathy |
Back (Definition) |
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Causes of polyradiculopathy |
Back (Definition) |
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Causes of polyradiculoneuropathy |
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Motor neuronopathies |
Back (Definition) |
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Sensory Neuronopathies |
Back (Definition) |
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Nodopathies |
Back (Definition) |
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Predominantly demyelination polyneuropathies |
Back (Definition) |
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Peripheral neuropathies with enlarged nerves |
Back (Definition) |