| A | B |
|---|
| hypesthesia | decreased sensitivity to touch |
| concussion | a violent jar or shock to the brain |
| Phalen maneuver | test for carpal tunnel syndrome |
| voyeurism | act of watching unsuspecting females for sexual excitement |
| chorea | constant rapid, jerky, involuntary movements |
| hypotonia | decreased muscle tone |
| amnesia | loss of memory |
| scotoma | an area of lost or depressed vision with surrounding normal vision |
| dysarthria | slurred and inappropriate speech |
| dissociation | a defense mechanism to avoid emotional pain |
| cephalalgia | headache |
| proprioception | a test performed on physical exam |
| asterixis | a course, slow, nonrhythmic movement of the outstretched hand |
| insomnia | inability to sleep |
| dysdiadochokinesia | inability to perform rapid alternating movements |
| somnolence | sleepiness |
| delirium | acute mental syndrome with rambling, disorganized thinking, incoherent speech |
| paraphilia | gross impairment in normal sexual response |
| tic | an involuntary repetitive movement |
| aphasia | defect or loss of the power of expression |
| paranoia | behavior with delusions of persecution and/or grandeur |
| ataxia | a reeling, wide-spread gait |
| ideation | the formation of a mental cocept or image |
| athetosis | slow, writhing movements of the hands |
| fasciculations | brief small twitches of muscle visible through the skin |
| myoclonus | a hiccup |
| fetishism | the use of physical objects to produce sexual excitement |
| causalgia | burning pain, caused by injury to a nerve |
| catatonia | psychomotor disturbance usually associated iwth schizophrenia |
| convulsion | a violent, involuntary contraction |
| dementia | an organic mental syndrome |
| hallucination | a sense perception without a source in the external world |
| paralysis | loss of motor function and/or sensation |
| Romberg test | a test for abnormal clumsiness |
| sadism | inflicting harm or suffering on another for sexual excitation |
| clonus | inermittent involuntary contraction and relaxation of muscles |
| vertigo | an illusory sense that the environment or your own body is rotating |
| apraxia | loss of the ability to carry out purposeful movements without paralysis |
| delusion | a false belief which is firmly maintained despite irrefutable negating evidence |
| tremor | involuntary trembling or quivering |
| grand mal | a tonic/clonic seizure |
| stupor | a lower level of consciousness |
