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| Pertaining to the cerebellun little brain |
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| Pertaining to the cerebrum and the sppinal cord |
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| Surgical excision of a portion of the skull (the cranium, which encases the brain |
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| Literally means surgical incision into the skull. It is a surgical operation in which a bone flap is removed from the skull to access the brain. |
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encephal/o brain
encephalopathy |
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| Any pathological dysfunction of the brain. HIV encephalopathy is called AIDS-dementia complex |
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hypn/0 sleep condition
hypnosis |
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| Artificially induced trancelike state resembling somnambuism (sleepwalking) |
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lamin/o thin plate
laminectomy |
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| Surgical excision of a vertebral posterior arch |
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| Surgical incision into the prefrontal or frontal lobe of the brain |
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| mening/i membrane,menings |
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| TUMOR OF THE MENINGES THAT ORIGINATES IN THE ARACHNOIDAL TISSUE |
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mening/o inflammation
meningitis |
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| Inflammation of the meninges of the spinal cord or brain. With early dianosis and prompt treatment most patients recover from meningitis. |
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myel/o spinal cors hernia
meningomyelcele |
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| Congenital herniation of the spinal cord and meninges through a defect in the vertebral column. |
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myel/o spinal cord recording
myelography |
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| X-ray recording of the spinal cord after injection of a radiopaque medium into the spinal canal |
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| Pain in a nerve or nerves |
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pallid/o globus pallidus incision
pallidotomy |
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| Surgical destruction of the globus pallidus of the brain done to treat involuntary movements pr muscular rigidity in Parkinson desease |
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| Swelling of the optic disk, usually caused by increased intracranial pressure (ICP) also called choked disk |
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phe/o dusky color cell tumor
pheochromocytoma |
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| Chromaffin cell tumor of the adrenal medulla or of the symphathetic nervous system |
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| somn/o sleep to walk condition |
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| Condition of sleepwalking |
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spondyl/o vertebra
spondylosyndesis |
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| Surgical procedure to bind vertebra after removal of a herniated disk, also called spinal fusion |
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vag/o vagus,wandering
vagotomy |
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| Surgical incision of the vagus nerve |
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| X-ray of the cerebral ventricles |
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