| A | B |
| Scrum | a place or situation of confusion; racket |
| Deceleration | slowing down |
| Concussive | violent jarring or shock |
| Cumulative | increasing or enlarging by successive addition |
| Susceptible | easily influenced or infected |
| Acute | very sharp |
| Chronic | of long duration |
| Ethos | distinctive spirit of a culture or an era |
| Emulate | to try to equal or excel |
| Sludge | mud, mire, or ooze |
| Cognitive | related to the mental processes of perception and memory ("thinking and using your brain") |
| Metabolic | undergo a powerful force; major change |
| Grueling | exhausting, very tiring |
| Vulnerable | capable of being wounded or hurt |
| Degenerative | worsens condition -- intellectual, moral or physical decline |
| Erosion | breaking apart |
| Carnage | slaughter |
| Cerebral | pertaining to the brain |
| Postmortem | the time following death |
| Noninvasive | not going into or bothering (invading) healthy cells |
| Malignant | causing harm or suffering |
| Antiseizure | preventing seizures |
| Neuro- | science relating to nervous system (ie Neuroscientist, Neurochemistry, neurologically) |
| Recuperation | recover from sickness |