MED. TERM: NERVOUS SYSTEM

\-algesia

pain, sensitivity

analgesia

absence of pain or sensation

anesthesia

lack of sensations

aphasia

lack of speech

\-paresis

weakness

cephal/o

head

cephalgia

headache

cephalic

toward the head

cerebral

pertaining to the cerebrum

electroencephalogram

record of brain electricity

encephal/o

brain

erythr-

red

\-esthesia

feeling or sensation

gli/o

glue

meningitis

inflammation of the meninges

multi-

many

myel/o

spinal cord

neur/o

nerve

neural

pertaining to the nerves

neuralgia

nerve pain

phas/o; -phasia

speech

\-plegia

paralysis

Poli/o

gray matter

Radicul/o

nerve root

Radiculitis

inflammation of nerve root

\-taxia

muscle co-ordination

thec/o

sheath \[meninges\]

uni-

one

xantho-

yellow