a peripheral nerve sheath Schwannoma : the most common type of neurogenic tumor, usually benign. Neurofibrosarcoma : neurofibroma-malignant type • Neuroastrocytoma • Neurinoma • Neurocytoma : 1. edulloepithelioma(neuroepithelioma) 2. ganglioneuroma
nerve sheath by cutting it longitudinally. 2.operative breaking up of perineural adhesions. 3.relief of tension upon a nerve obtained by stretching. 4.destruction or dissolution of nerve tissue. • Neuroanatomy • Neurosurgery • Neuritis • Neuralgia : Neurodynia
cord 2. Myelo: Bone (e.g ) myeloblast, myelomatosis or and … • Myelitis: 1. inflammation of the spinal cord; often expanded to include noninflammatory spinal cord lesions. 2. inflammation of the bone marrow (osteomyelitis). • Myelopathy: 1. any functional disturbance and/or pathological change in the spinal cord; often used to denote nonspecific lesions, as opposed to myelitis. 2. pathological bone marrow changes. • Myelography • Myelatrophy • myelomalacia • Myeloschisis • Poliomyelitis : polio- (“gray matter”) • syringomyelia ( Syringe:tube/cavity)
• Psychotherapy • Psychotic: 1. pertaining to, characterized by, or caused by psychosis. 2. a person exhibiting psychosis. • Psychogenic • Psychosis • psychosomatic
pertaining to or producing narcosis. 2. an agent that produces insensibility or stupor, especially an opioid. • Narcissism • Narcoanalysis • Narcohypnosis
• Claustrophobia: • Hydrophobia: 1. irrational fear of water. 2. choking, gagging, and fear on attempts to drink in the paralytic phase of rabies. 3. former term for rabies. • Photophobia • Acrophobia • Agoraphbia • Claustrophobia • Xenophobia
loss of sensation, usually by damage to a nerve or receptor. 2. loss of the ability to feel pain, caused by administration of a drug or other medical intervention. • Dysesthesia: 1. distortion of any sense, especially of the sense of touch. 2. an unpleasant abnormal sensation produced by normal stimuli. dysesthet'ic, adj. auditory dysesthesia • Cryesthesia • Paresthesia : numbness • Graphestesia • kinesthesia
for “madness” paranoid personality disorder • Schizophrenia schisis :cleaving/splitting/parting schiz/o: split phren/o, psych/o, thym/o :mind • catatonia: A phase of schizophrenia • sedative : Latin sedativus Agent that relieves feelings of agitation . • rachischisis: (synonymous with spina bifida) Rachi (From a Greek word rhachis, meaning spine.)
: Lepto : thin : archnoid + piamatter • Autonomic nervous system auto- (“self”); nom- (“name”); -ic (adjective suffix) • Dendrite dendrites (Greek, “relating to a tree”) • Diencephalon di- (“through”); encephal/o (“brain”) • Dura mater from durus (Latin for “hard”) and mater (Latin for “mother”) • Hypothalamus hyp/o (“below”); thalamos (Greek word for “bed”)
“long”) • Meninges the plural form of meninx (Greek for “membrane”) • Mesencephalon mes/o (“middle”); encephal/o (“brain”) • Pons pons (Latin word for “bridge”) • Ventricles from ventriculus (Latin word for “belly”) • Sciatica from sciaticus (Latin for “hip”)
Syncope Greek word for “swoon” fainting • contrecoup injury (from French, meaning “counterblow”) • multiple sclerosis multiple (common English word); scleros (Greek word for “hard”); -osis (“condition”) • Hemiballismus