| A | B |
|---|
| Munchausen syndrome | repeated dramatic faking of serious illness |
| trigeminal neuralgia | severe pain, especially in mandibular or maxillary nerves |
| encephalitis | inflammation of the brain |
| Parkinson disease | slowly progressive disease of the cns |
| Lou Gehrig disease | amyotrophic lateral slcerosis |
| meningitis | inflammation of the meninges |
| quadriplegia | paralysis of all four limbs |
| neurofibromatosis | familial condition resulting in multiple soft tumors throughout entire body |
| microcephaly | smallness of head |
| astrocytoma | the most common type of brain tumor |
| dysthymia | a long-term, low-grade mood disorder |
| herniated nucleus pulposus | herniated, ruptured, or prolapsed intervertebral disc |
| spondylosis | immobility and consolidation of a vertebral joint |
| Wallerian degeneration | a series of changes which take place in a severed nerve fiber |
| myasthenia gravis | disease with episodic muscle weakness |
| glioma | any tumor of the brain or spinal cord |
| spina bifida occulta | defective closure of the spinal canal with no protrusion |
| peripheral neuropathy | traumatic, inflammatory, degnerative. or toxic changes of the peripheral nerves |
| Tourette syndrome | a multiple tic disorder |
| Alzheimer disease | degenerative disease causing memory loss, personality changes, and dememtia |
| cerebrovascular accident | a stroke |
| myelomeningocele | a hernia protrusion of the spinal cord |
| hydrocephalus | dilatation of the cerebral ventricles causing csf buildup |
| syrinx | a fluid-filled neurolgical cavity |
| Arnold-Chiari malformation | congenital deformity with protrusion of the medulla and cerebellum into the spincal cord |
| multiple sclerosis | a disease marked by lesions of the white matter |
| subdural empyema | pus between the dura and arachnoid |
| schizophrenia | a group of mental disorders with six primary characters |
| spondylolisthesis | forward placement of one vertebra over another |
| schizoaffective disorder | schizophrenia with mood disorder |
| narcissistic personality disorder | personality disorder exhibited by exaggerated sense of self-importance |
| histrionic | an egocentric personality disorder |
| cyclothymic | personalities with fluctuation between hight spirts and gloom |
| Guillain-Barre syndrome | an acute, rapidly progressive form of polyneuropathy |
