Exam 10: Nervous System

What is difficult, poorly articulated speech, usually caused by damage to a central or peripheral motor nerve called?

Which term means paralysis of one side of the body?

Area of contact between a neuron and adjoining skeletal muscle is the ____________________.

Write the meaning of the abbreviation: TENS ____________________

Craniocerebral means pertaining to which structures?

What is narcolepsy?

What is the cause of a cerebrovascular accident?

Syllables are shown for the following term. Indicate the primary accented syllable in the term by typing which numbered syllable receives the primary accent: 1, 2, 3, 4, and so on. Meningocele (muh-ning-g -s l)

Which is true of the term meninx?

In comparing a neurosis and a psychosis, which of the following is true?

What is an agent that relieves pain without loss of consciousness?

What is an aneurysm?

Which of the following is not one of the meninges?

Which of the following is a sexual perversion or deviation in which the sexual instinct is expressed in ways that are undesirable, prohibited, or socially unacceptable?

Which term describes a subjective sensation, experienced as numbness, tingling, or "pins and needles" feeling, often in the absence of an external stimulus?

Which of the following is a nervous condition characterized by chronic weakness, easy fatigability, and sometimes exhaustion?

The peripheral nervous system has two parts. Which of these two carries a message from receptors to the central nervous system?

What does intrathecal mean?

If the following word is spelled correctly, write "Correct" as the answer. If not, correctly spell the misspelled word. Nuralgia ____________________

What is the name of the drilled opening in the cranium used to remove localized fluid and blood beneath the dura?