nervous system vocab

cerebr/o

cerebrum

crani/o

cranium, skull

encephal/o

brain

kinesi/o

movement

lex/o

word or phrase

mening/o

meninges (3 membrane layers that covers the brain and spinal cord)

myel/o

spinal cord and bone marrow

narc/o

sleep, numbness, stupor

neur/o

nerve

ment/o, phren/o, psych/o

mind

poli/o

gray matter

schiz/o

split

contus/o

to bruise

hypn/o

sleep

pol/o

extreme

syncop/o

to cut off; cut short; faint

tax/o

coordination; order

thalam/o

thalamus

thec/o

sheath

ton/o

tone

ventricul/o

ventricle (heart and brain)

gangli/o

tumor; ganglion (a group of neuron cell bodies in the peripheral nervous system)

gli/o

glue, neurological tissue

lept/o

thin, slender

radicul/o

nerve root

sthen/o

strength

esthes/o, esthesi/o

nervous sensation

hydr/o

water

phas/o

speech

troph/o

development; nourishment

isch/o

back; to hold back

synaps/o, synapt/o

point of contact; to join

traumat/o

trauma; injury; wound

dur/o

dura mater (outermost of the 3 meningeal membranes)

pachy-

heavy; thick

para-

beside, near

dys-

painful; difficult

con-

together; with

syn-

union, joined, together

uni-, mono-

one; single

poly-

many; much

sub-

below; under

-algesia/-algia

pain

-plegia

paralysis

-asthenia

weakness

-sclerosis

hardening; thickening

-cele

hernia; swelling; protrusion

-um, -us

structure; tissue; thing

-leptic

to seize; take hold of

-lepsy

seizure

-esthesia

feeling

-kinesia

movement (suffix)

-taxia

order, coordination (suffix)

-phasia

speech (suffix)

-rrhaphy

suture

-phobia

fear

-tropic

turning

-paresis

partial paralysis

AD

Alzheimer's disease

CNS

Central Nervous System

LOC

level of consciousness/loss of consciousness

CSF

Cerebrospinal fluid

EEG

Electroencephalogram

ICP

intracranial pressure