med term - nervous system

ab-

away (away from)

acoust/i-

hearing

apo-

above or upon

audi-

hearing

aur/i-

ear

blepharo-

eyelid

canth/o-

corner of eye

cataract

waterfall or cloudiness

catarrh-

to flow down

cerebr/o-

brain

ceru-

wax

chalaz/io-

hailstone

cochle/o-

snail-like

comato-

deep sleep

concuss/i-

violent shaking

-conis

cone-shaped

conjuctiv/o-

joined together

convolo-

to roll together

corne/o-

cornea or horn shape

cortic/o-

bark, outer bark, rind, cortex

-cusis

hearing

cycl/o-

circle

dacryo-

tear

dendr/o-

tree-shaped

dura-

hard

-ellum

lesser or smaller

en/cephal/o-

within head (referring to the brain)

esthes/i-

physical feeling

front/o-

forehead or before

glauc/o-

waterfall or gray

gli/o-

glue or glue-like

hypn/o-

sleep

ide/o-

idea, thoughts, emotions, image

incus

anvil

intra-

within

ir/o-

rainbow

-ites

dropsy or drooping

junctiv/o-

joining or to join

kerat/o-

cornea or horny

labyrinth-

maze

-lepsy

seizure or convulsion

malle/o-

hammer

-mania

madness

meat/o-

opening

mening/o-

membrane

ment/o-

mind

mydri/o-

to widen

myring/o-

eardrum

narc/o-

sleep

nares

nose opening

nas/o-

nose

neur/o-

nerve

noct/i-

night or blind

-noia

mind

ocul/o-

eye

olfact/o-

smelling or smell

ophthalm/o-

eye or eyeball

opto-

vision, sight, eye

orb-

circle or dish

osmo-

smell

ot/o-

ear

palpebra-

eyelid

palsy

slight or moderate paralysis

-paresis

paralysis

petit

little illness

phob/o-

fear

phon/o-

voice or sound

phor/o-

feeling (mental)

pia-

gentle

pinn/a-

feather or feather-like

-pleg/ia

paralysis

-plexy

paralysis

poli/o-

gray

pons

bridge

presbyo-

old

propri/o-

property (nerve stimuli or information)

psych/o-

mind

pteryg/o-

winged

pupill/o-

pupil

radic/o-

nerve root or spinal nerve

retina

net or net-like

rhin/o-

nose

schiz/o-

split or splitting

scot/o-

darkness

senil/e-

old

somn/o-

sleep

staped/o-

stirrup

strabism/o-

to squint or squinting

sty/e

raised

tempor/o-

temple

theo-

god

tinnitus

jingling, tinkling, ringing

trochle/o-

pulley or pulley-like

tympan/o-

eardrum

typh/o-

stupor

uve/a-

grape

vertigo

whirling

xen/o-

strange or foreign

What kind of seizure has contractions that usually start in a group of muscles on one side of the body and spread to the extremities and the whole body?

Jacksonian

The term that means spinal cord inflammation is:

myel/itis