Exam 12: Nervous System

Ultrasound of the brain is:

Slight paralysis of the lower limbs and trunk is:

Inflammation of the sciatic nerve is ____________________.

What inherited disorder manifests in adulthood as a progressive loss of neural control, uncontrollable jerking movements, and dementia?

What is a new opening created between the third ventricle and subarachnoid space to treat hydrocephalus? ____________________

Monoplegia is paralysis of one limb on the right or left side of the body.

Surgical repair of a nerve is a ____________________.

This term denotes displacement of an intervertebral disk.

The frontal lobe is responsible for vision.

The surfaces of the cerebral hemispheres are covered with gray matter and are called the cerebral cortex.

An electrical response to specific stimuli by the brain stem or cerebral cortex is:

The occipital lobe contains the functions for speech.

Neuroglia cells are parenchymal cells.

Removal of a part of the skull is:

Headache of vascular origin is:

What is a degenerative, fatal disease of the motor neurons in which patients exhibit progressive muscle weakness and atrophy?

Inflammation of the brain:

Dizziness is:

A condition of abnormal accumulation of fluid in the ventricles of the brain is:

Shingles is caused by the latent varicella zoster virus.