Exam 5: The Nervous System Neurology and Psychiatry

Which drug dissolves clots?

Build a medical term that means "inflammation of the brain and meninges."

Identify the correct pronunciation for the term nystagmus.

A suffix that means excessive desire, is?

Build a medical term that means "removal of a piece of the skull."

An excessive desire to steal is called:

A loss or decline in mental function is called:

Build a medical term that means "nerve tumor."

Build a medical term that means "spinal cord softening."

Build a medical term that means "reconstruction of a nerve."

Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding the abbreviation CVA?

Identify and define the roots in the term somnambulism.

Translate the medical term subdural hematoma as literally as possible.

The widening or abnormal dilation of a blood vessel in the brain is known as a:

Translate the root tax/o.

Build a medical term that means "incision into a lobe."

Which is the correct breakdown and translation of the medical term encephalopyosis?

Translate the medical term cerebral thrombosis as literally as possible.

Which term refers to the time between seizures?

Which is the correct breakdown of the medical term neuroarthropathy into its component parts?