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47 Cards in this Set
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Afferent
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To carry towards
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Anesthesia
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Without feeling or sensation.
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Astrocyte
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Star (shaped) cell.
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Cerebrospinal
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Pertaining to the brain (cerebrum) and spinal cord.
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Craniotomy
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To cut into the Brain.
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Dementia
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To lose one's mind
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Dendrites
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Branches
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Dysphagia
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Difficulty swallowing.
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Dysphaisa
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Difficulty speaking
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Efferent
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To carry away from.
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Encephalitis
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Inflammation in the brain
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Encephalotomy
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To cut into the brain
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Epilepsy
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Upon (recurrent) seizures
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Glossopharngeal
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Pertaining to the tongue and throat.
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Hemiparesis
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Half (of the body) slightly paralyzed.
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Hemiplegia
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Half (of the body) paralyzed.
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Hydrocephalus
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Condition of water on the brain.
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Hypoglossal
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Below the tongue.
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Intracranial
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within the skull.
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Kinesthetic
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Pertaining to movement.
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Megalomania
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madness about great or large. (having on over-inflated ego about one's self)
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Meninges
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Meninges or coverings of the brain.
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Meningitis
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inflammation of the brain coverings.
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Meningocele
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herniation or protrusion of the meninges.
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Microencephaly
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abnormally small head.
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Microglia
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small glue.
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motor
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referring to movement.
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myelography
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the process of recording a picture of the spinal cord.
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narcolepsy
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sleep seizures
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neuralglia
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nerve pain
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neuroglia
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nerve glue
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neurology
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the study of nerves.
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oculomotor
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movement of the eye.
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olfactory
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referring to smell.
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oligodendrocyte
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specialized nerve cell.
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optic
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pertaining to the eye.
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paralysis
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unable to move.
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paraplegia
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unable to move lower extremeties.
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Poliomyelitis
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inflammation of the gray matter of the spinal cord.
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Polyneuritis
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Inflammation of many nerves
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Quadraplegia
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paralysis of four extremities.
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Radiculopathy
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Nerve root disease.
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Scizophrenia
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condition of split mind.
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Somatic
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Referring to the body.
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Somnambulism
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state of sleep walking.
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Spinal
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pertaining to the spine or pertaining to the spinal cord.
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Syndrome
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Symptoms that run together.
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