Medical Terminology Ch. 10
How many regions of the spinal cord are there?
4
What is the most common form of dementia called?
Alzheimer disease
Which congenital anomaly is incompatible with life?
Anencephaly
Which of the following classification of medications refers to a pharmacologic agent capable of preventing or arresting seizure activity?
Antiepileptics
Which of the following words means the sensory experience preceding an epileptic seizure or a migraine headache?
Aura
Which of the following is not a cause of PTSD?
Chronic migraines
What is a function of the occipital lobe?
Interpret visual images and the written word
Which of the following conditions results from demyelination?
Multiple sclerosis
Which of the following words has a suffix which means covering?
Neurilemma
If you are diagnosed with an intracranial hemorrhage, what type of specialist do you need?
Neurologist
Identify the term with an element meaning suffering.
Parasympathetic
What is the best definition for hemiplegia?
The arm and leg of one side of the body are affected.
How many layers of meninges are there?
Three
A disorder of multiple motor and vocal tics is called
Tourette syndrome
Eric complains of sudden, severe pain in his face. The pain is associated with the muscles of chewing. What is the likely diagnosis?
Trigeminal neuralgia
What is another name for major depression?
Unipolar disorder
The cranial nerve that is a mixed parasympathetic nerve that innervates the abdominal and thoracic viscera.
Vagus
The word cognition means the process of:
acquiring knowledge through thinking, learning, and memory.
The meninges that resembles a spider web is called the:
arachnoid mater.
The root in the word endarterectomy means:
artery
The word which means slow, writhing, involuntary movements is:
athetosis.
Herpes zoster (shingles) is an infection of peripheral nerves arising from a re-activation of the primary childhood viral infection _________.
chickenpox
The C in LOC stands for:
consciousness
A synonym for seizure is:
convulsion.
The right and left cerebral hemispheres are connected by the:
corpus callosum.
A synonym for a tonic-clonic seizure is a(n):
grand mal seizure.
A condition caused by an excessive amount of CSF causing ventricular enlargement is:
hydrocephalus
The color of white matter is the result of:
myelin
The word cervical means pertaining to the:
neck.
The word element that means nerve is:
neuro
The word element that means hidden is:
occult/a
The word which refers to a loss of motor control and sensation as a result of injury to the spinal cord is:
paralysis
The word element that means furrow or ditch is:
sulcus
The word element that means internal organ is:
viscer.
The term hemiparesis means:
weakness of one side of the body.
What is the facial nerve disorder characterized by a sudden weakness or paralysis of muscles on one side of the face?
Bell palsy
Because Jon suffered from an acute seizure, the neurologist ordered a(n):
EEG.
What does the abbreviation EEG stand for?
Electroencephalogram
Which of the following procedures records electrical impulses of the brain to measure brain activity?
Electroencephalography
