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Altruism

Unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of others 

Competence

The ability to do something successfully or efficiently 

Duty 

Commitment to meeting one’s obligations

Integrity 

Steadfast adherence to high ethical principles or professional standards 

Collaboration 

Action of working with someone to produce or create something 

Social Responsibility 

Promotion of mutual trust between the profession and larger public 

Beneficence

An act of charity, mercy, or kindness

Maleficence

Act of committing harm or evil 

Non-maleficence

Do no harm

justice

quality of being jus, equitable

veracity

truthfulness

confidentiality

private, information that should not be share without permission

autonomy

ability of a person to make his

frontal lobe

Controls emotional expression, problem solving, memory, judgement, language 

parietal lobe

Function and processing of sensory information, body awareness 

temporal lobe

Auditory language and speech comprehension 

occipital lobe

Visual processing 

dura mater

tough, outermost membrane 

Subarachnoid Mater and Space

Thin space between arachnoid and pia mater 

Cerebrospinal fluid

A colorless liquid that is comparable to serum, is secreted from the blood into the lateral ventricles of the brain, and serves chiefly to maintain uniform pressure within the brain and spinal cord

Pia Mater

Delicate innermost membrane 

Aphasia

Loss of ability to understand or express speech 

Ataxia

Lack of muscle control/coordination 

Athetosis 

Abnormal mm. contractions causing involuntary writhing movement 

Cerebrovascular Accident

CVA stoke 

Clonus

Involuntary, rhythmic muscular contractions and relaxations 

Cog wheel rigidity

Muscle stiffness 

Concussion

 A brain injury caused by a blow to the head or a violent shaking of the head and body. 

Dementia

progressive condition (such as Alzheimer's disease) marked by the development of multiple cognitive deficits (such as memory impairment, aphasia, and the inability to plan and initiate complex behavior) 

Dysdiadochokinesia 

Rapid alternating movements of the hands or feet 

Flaccidity

Lacking tone 

Multiple Sclerosis

progressive condition (such as Alzheimer's disease) marked by the development of multiple cognitive deficits (such as memory impairment, aphasia, and the inability to plan and initiate complex behavior) 

Paresthesia

Abnormal dermal sensation 

Parkinson’s Disease

Progressive neurological disorder of the basal ganglia 

Spasticity 

is a condition in which muscles stiffen or tighten, preventing normal fluid movement; The muscles remain contracted and resist being stretched, thus affecting movement, speech and gait. 

Synergy

Combined action, working together 

Ather/o

Yellowish, fatty plaque 

Crypt/o

Hidden 

Audi/o

Hearing 

Encephal/o

Brain 

Esthesi/o 

Sensation, perception 

Metri/o

uterus 

Myel/o

Spinal cord, bone marrow 

Opt/o

vision 

Paresis

Slight or incomplete paralysis 

Phas/o, Phasia

speech 

Plegia

paralysis 

Quadr/i

four 

Radic/o

Nerve root 

Rhiz/o

Nerve root 

asthenia

Lack or loss of strength 

paresis

weakness 

phagia

swallowing 

plegia

paralysis 

De-

Out, away from 

Para-

Adjacent, alongside 

Quad-, Quadri-

four 

Tetra-

four

ADL

Activities of daily living 

CNS

Central nervous system 

CP

Cerebral Palsy 

CSF

Cerebrospinal fluid 

CVA

Cerebral vascular accident 

MS

Multiple sclerosis 

NCV

Nerve conduction velocity 

PNS

Peripheral nervous system 

SCI

Spinal cord injury 

TBI

Traumatic brain injury