Vocabulary test w. 42

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• Impaired speech aphasia
• can cause strokes blood clot
• consists of brain and spinal cord central nervous system
• found in the hind brain, has many ridges on its surface and is involved with balance, equilibrium and coordination cerebellum
• largest portion of the fore brain important in thinking, sight, smell and muscle control cerebrum
• violent jarring of brain concussion
• series of jerking of the face, trunk, and extremities convulsion; seizure
• sensory projections which carry information to the nerve cell body dendrites
• unusual electrical activity in brain epilepsy
• "water in the brain" can be congenital (born with) or caused by injury or infection hydrocephalus
• dizziness lightheadedness
• inflammation of the meninges. may lead to paralysis, difficulty breathing or a coma depending on how bad the infection is. can be bacterial or viral meningitis
• severe headache migraine
• formation of plauge in the brain or spinal cord causing some degree of tremor, paralysis, or speech disturbance multiple sclerosis
• basic Unit of the nervous system neuron
• absence of feeling numbness
• loss of voluntary movement paralysis
• rhythmical tremors, rigidity of movement, droopy posture, masklike facies parkinson's disease
• consists of nerves extending from the spinal cord and brain to other parts of the body such as muscles, intestines, and the skin peripheral nervous system
• pain in lower back and hip radiating down posterior thigh sciatica
• has white matter on the outside and gray matter on the inside. It is also bathed in cerebro-spinal fluid spinal cord
• blood clot or haemorrhage in brain stroke; CVA
• involuntary trembling or shaking tremor
• can pressure on areas of the brain and cause seizures tumors
• feeling as if the room is spinning, dizziness vertigo
• warped or disorted image astigmatism
• loss of vision due to clouding of the eye lens cataract
• inflammation of conjunctiva conjunctivitis
• portion of sclera front membrane of the eye cornea
• retina pulled away from the choroid detached retina
• increased intraocular pressure glaucoma
• functions as sphincter regulates amount of light that enters iris
• crystalline structure controlled by muscles that enable light rays to focus on the retina lens
• cranial nerve that transmits impulses to the brain for intrepretation optic nerve
• a black hole in the center of iris where light enters pupil
• membrane at back of eyeball contains rods and cones for black, white and color vision retina
• inflammation of oil gland of eyelid sty or stye
• sharpness or clearness of sight visual acuity

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