Nervous System word building/ vocab
1. Specialist in toxins
_____toxicologist_________
2. Disease of the spinal cord
_______myelopathy______
3. Incision into the meninges
________meningiotomy__
4. Study of the mind
___________psychology___
5. Pain in the spine
______spinalgia___________
6. Pertaining to the cerebrum and spine
_______cerebrospinal____
7. Inflammation of the brain
______encephalitis_______
8. Tumor composed of neuroglia tissue
_______glioma____________
9. Herniation of the meninges
______menigiocele_______
10. Pain in the spinal cord
_______myelalgia_________
11. Destruction of nerves
________neurolysis_______
12. Inflammation of nerves and spinal cord
_______neuromyelitis____
13. Disease of the brain
______encephalopathy___
14. Paralysis of half the body (R or L)
________hemiplegia______
15. Paralysis of limbs side by side
_________paraplegia______
16. Instrument to cut nerves
_________neurotome______
17. Tumor of the brain
_____encephaloma_______
18. Inflammation of the meninges
_______meningitis________
19. Herniation of the spinal cord
_______myelocele_________
20. Enlargement of the brain
______encephalomegaly__
Fill in the blanks with the proper term.
1. Sensory information travels along ______afferent_________ pathways to the
______CNS_________.
2. ____CSF_________ is fluid found around the brain and spinal cord.
3. The brain send impulses along the _____efferent_______ pathways to the body
to allow response to stimuli.
4. The spinal cord ends at L1 and becomes the ____cauda equina______.
5. The cerebrum is divided into two _______hemispheres_______ and has the
______corpus callosum__________ to allow the two to communicate.
6. The tree like structure of the cerebellum is called the ____arbor vitea____.
7. Patients who suffer from a ____CVA____ often have weakness on one side of
their bodies.
8. The ______PNS_______ begins where the spinal nerves exit the spinal cord.