| A | B |
|---|
| cephal/o | head |
| encephal/o | inside the head (brain) |
| mening/o | membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord |
| myel/o | spinal cord |
| neur/o | nerve |
| dys- | difficult, painful, abnormal |
| -cele | hernia, abnormal protrusion of structure out of normal anatomical position |
| -pathy | disease, abnormality |
| -plasia | development, formation, growth |
| -plegia | paralysis |
| aplasia | no development |
| hyperplasia | over development |
| multiple sclerosis | build up of plaque in the nerves causing degeneration |
| cerebral vascular accident CVA | stroke |
| epilepsy | greek for "seizure" |
| neurologist | physician specializinging disesases of the brain,spinal cord and nerves |
| brain scan | radio active element goes into the blood to image brain |
| magnetic resonance imaging MRI | images "slices" of the body using radio pulses |
| cephalgia | a headache |
| encephalitis | inflammation of the brain |
| anencephalic | born without a brain |
| meningitis | inflammation of the membranes |
| myelogram | x-ray of the spinal cord |
| neuroma | tumor of nerves |
| neuritis | inflammation of nerves |
| dyslexia | difficulty reading |
| meningomyelocele | protrusion of membranes and spinal cord |
| encephalopathy | disease of the brain |
| neuropathy | disease of the nerves |
| hemiplegia | paralysis of one side of the body |
| quadriplegia | paralysis of all four limbs |
| Transient Ischemic Attack - TIA | mini-stroke |
| aphasia | loss of speech |
| lumbar puncture or spinal tap | inserting a needle between the vertebrae to remove fluid |
| electroencephalography - EEG | imaging the brain's electrical activity |
| computed tomography - CT | low-dose x-ray that images "slices" of the body |
