med term nervous system vocab

-algesia

pain, sensitivity

analgesia

without pain or sensitivity

anesthesia

without feeling or sensation

aphasia

without speech

-paresis

weakness

cephal/o

head

cephalgia

headache

cephalic

toward the head

cerebral

pertaining to the cerebrum

electroencephalogram

a record of electrical activity in the brain

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

speech

-phasia

speech

-plegia

paralysis

poli/o

gray matter

radicul/o

nerve root

radiculitis

inflammation of the nerve roots

-taxia

muscle coordination

thec/o

sheath (meninges)

uni-

one

xantho-

yellow