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| Profound unconsciousness or deep stupor from illness or injury |
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| Abnormal mental state characterized by confusion, disorientation & agitation. |
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| Weakness or loss of motion on one side of the body. |
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| pain in lower back, radiated down posterior leg |
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| spasmodic, involuntary muscle contraction involving head, face, mouth, eyes, neck |
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| -nerves lose myelin sheathing resulting in loss of sensation & muscle control in arms and legs |
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| a neurodegenerative genetic disorder of the CNS that results in progressive dementia with bizarre involuntary movements. Named for George Huntington |
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| DZ with sever muscular weakness dut to insufficient neurotransmitter at a synapse |
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| inflammatory disease of the CNS, extreme weakness due to loss of myelin sheathing |
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| chronic mental disorder, onset 40-70 years |
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paralysis of one side of the face, resulting from a dysfunction of the cranial nerve VII, the facial nerve. The dysfunction has an unknown cause.
Names for Sir Charles Bell |
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| DZ of the nervous SX, tremors, weakness in muscles, rigidity & shuffling gait |
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| congenital defect in which walls of the spinal canal & vertebrae do not meet |
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| amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
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ALS
muscle weakness & atrophy due to the degeneration of the motor nerves of the spinal cord |
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