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| inability to walk due to impaired muscle coordination |
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| a condition where no associated fever exists with an illness |
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| inability to view or perceive things |
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| giving or receiving of nourishment |
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| condition in which pain arised from a stimulus that would not normally be experiended as painful |
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| a drug used to relieve pain |
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| abnormal swelling in a blood vessel |
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| pupils of different sizes |
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| partial or complete stiffness of a joint |
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| posture or gait assumed to avoid or lessen pain |
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| absence of oxygen supply to an organ or a tissue |
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| condition characterized by the complete absence of urine flow |
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| reflexive action which makes it partially or totally impossible to swallow |
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| cortic-motor disorder resulting in a complete inability to form words; loss of language expression or comprehension |
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| partial or total inability to speak in a coherent fashion |
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| flattened tendon; resembles a membrane that attaches muscle to bones or tissue |
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| loss of previous ability to perform a skilled act without loss of motor or sensory. ex. zip a zipper or use a fork |
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| group of diseases characterized by thickening and loss of elasticity of the arterial walls, a general term for hardening of the arteries. Can occur in several forms including atherosclerosis |
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| accumulation of body fluid in the abdomen, resulting in a swollen, uncomfortable condition |
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| lack of motor coordination marked by an inability to stand or sit without assistance |
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| partial or total inability to control voluntary muscle movement, most frequently resulting from disorders in the brain or spinal cord; irregular or loss of motor coordination |
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| buildup of a waxy plaque on the inside of blood vessels |
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| slow,continuous writhing (snakelike, wormlike) movements, especially affecting the hands |
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| a sensation, as of a cold breeze or a bright light that precedes the onset of certain disorders, such as an epileptic seizure or and attack of migrane |
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| skull, thorax (ribs,& sternum), vertebral column. Appendicular is appendages that hang; upper and lower extremities |
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| extremely slow or abnormally deliberate movement |
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| small sacs that cushion joints btn tendons and bones |
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| a persistant, severe burning sensation of the skin, usually following inury to a peripheral nerve |
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| burning pain often associated with trophic skin changes in the hand or foot, caused by a peripheral nerve injury. May be aggravated by the slightest stimuli or intensified by emotions |
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| Usually begins several weeks after a peripheral nerve injure burning pain is described as intense, with patients sometimes taking elaboate precautions to avoid any stimulus that they know could cause a flare-up of symptoms |
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| quick, jerky, purposeless involuntary movements, which may appear well-coordinated but have no rhythmicity |
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| alternate involuntary muscular contraction and relaxation in rapid succession |
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| abnormal rigor in muscle tissue characterized by jerky movements when the muscle is passively stretched. |
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| Condition often found in cases of Parkinson's disease; jerky movements |
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| a muscle shortens in length and develops tension. ex. upward movement of a dumbell in a biceps curl or as you spring back from a jump landing, extending your knees and jumping back up in the air, the quadriceps are shortening as they create force to push you off |
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| vertical body plane, divides body into front and back sections (ant/post) standing |
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| involuntary utterance of obscene words or socially inappropriate derogatory remarks |
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| area of skin that is mainly supplied by a single spinal nerve root |
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| excessive sweating or perspiration |
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| differential diagnosis;comparing two or more symptoms or diseases |
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| double vision, blind spots, graying of vision |
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| sudden spontaneous falls while standing or walking, with complete recovery in seconds or minutes |
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| disturbance of speech function due to emotional stress, to brain injury, or to paralysis, incoordination of spasticity of muscles used for speaking; stuttering or stammering |
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| impaired or abnormal interpretation of normal stimuli |
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| impairment of voluntary movement; inability to make physical motion |
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| movement disorder that causes the muscles to contract and spasm involuntarily usually producing twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal postures or positions |
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| development of tension whilst the muscle is being lengthened; ex. downward movement of a dumbell in biceps curl or when you land on two feet from a jump and bend your knees the quadriceps are lengthening |
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| uncontrollable and immediate repetition of words spoken by another person |
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| lodging of and embolus that obstructs circulation |
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| small clot or foreign substance (clump of bacteria,air)detached from inside a blood vessel and floating free in the blood |
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| horizontal body plane, divides body into top and bottom sections; across or through |
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| involuntary movements involving alternate contraction of antagonistic muscles; resting-Parkinson's; intention-cerebellar or MS |
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| bent out, twisted; denoting a deformity in which the angulation is away from the midline of the body |
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| dampens erratic motions, maintains muscle tone and truncal stability. It is phylogenetically older that the pyramidal system and thus plays a relatively more important role in lower animals. Many of its synaptic connections are extremely complex and even today, poorly understood. Neurodegenerative disorders which affect the system have yielded much of our knowledge about its normal function. Extrapyramidal nuclei include the substantia nigra, caudate putamen, globus pallidus, thalamus, red nucleus and subthalamic nucleus. All of these nuclei are synaptically connected to one another, the brainstem, cerebellum and the pyramidal system. |
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| connective tissue sheath; covers, supports, and separates muscles, holds muscle fibers. |
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| a small, local, involuntary muscle contraction and relaxation visible under the skin arising from the spontaneous discharge of a bundle of skeletal muscle fibers. |
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| the rapid, irregular, and unsynchronized contraction of muscle fibers. Those contractions are not visible under the skin and are detectable through needle electromyography (EMG) and ultrasound. Fibrillations do not occur in healthy individuals. They are a major symptom in acute and sever peripheral nerve disorders, in myopathies in which muscle fibers are split or inflammed, and lower motor neuron lesions. They contrast with fasiculations that are visible spontaneous contractions involving small groups of muscle fibers. Also, fasiculation does not necessarily denote pathology, as does fibrillation, although it can be seen in lower motor neuron lesions as well. |
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| an abnormal condition characterized by the weakening or the loss of muscle tone. It may be caused by disease or by trauma affecting the nerves associated with the involved muscles. |
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| sensation that resembles ants or insects crawling on or under the skin; a specific type of parathesia. |
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| the ability to recognize writing on the skin purely by the sensation of touch |
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| insufficient levels of oxygen in blood or tissue |
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| induced in a patient by a physician's activity, manner, or therapy |
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| involuntary leakage of urine or the inability to control one's bowels |
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| intermittent claudication |
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| pain, tension, and weakness in the legs on walking, which intensifies to produce lameness and is relieved by rest; it is seen in occulsive arterial disease |
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| insufficient blood flow to a part of the body |
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| the muscle contracts but does not shorten giving no move |
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| the muscle contracts and shortens giving movement |
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| a problem with the intestine in which one portion of the bowel slides into the next, much like the pieces of a telescope |
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| any abnormal tissue found on or in an organism, usually damaged by disease or trauma; wound, injury, tumor |
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| constriction of the pupil; pin-point pupil |
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| disease of the spinal cord |
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| inflammation of the spinal cord |
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| abrupt, sudden irregular muscle contractions (associated with MS) |
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| non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs used to treat inflammation, mild to moderate pain and fever; ex. aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen. |
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| pain along the course of a nerve |
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| originating in the nerve or nerve tissue |
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| pain and paresthesias in the back, buttocks, and legs that is relieved by stooping, caused by mechanical disturbances due to posture or by ischemia of the cauda equina |
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| any disease of the nervous system |
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| involuntary jerking eye movements which may be inborn or a sign of disease of the nervous sytem |
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| a greatly reduced level of consciousness. The patient is not yet comatose but is close, arousing only with very strong stimulus. |
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| shortness of breath when lying flat |
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| relieving pain or suffering |
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| impaired function or paralysis |
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| a partial loss of motor function; muscle weakness |
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| sensation tingling, prickling, numbness; "pins and needles" |
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| a sudden attack or recurrence of symptoms |
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| the area between the anus and the scrotum in the male and between the anus and the vulva in the female |
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| a membrane that lines the outer surface of all bones, except at the joints of long bones. |
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| thin membrane that lines the abdominal and pelvic cavities, and covers most abdominal viscera |
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| refers to the lateral compartment of the leg |
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| the sense of awareness of position and movement of limbs and orientation of body in space and orientation; knowing where the body is in space |
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| controls all voluntary movements. Pathological processes which damage the pyramidal motor system are extremely important causes of disability and suffering |
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| increased body temperature; fever |
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| pertaining to a nerve root |
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| inflammation of a nerve root |
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| situated or occurring near the front end of the body, esp. in the region of the nose and mouth; toward the beak. |
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| vertical body plane, through trunk of body; if exactly through middle, it is midsagittal, and divides the body into equal right and left sides |
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| slow and hesitant speech pattern |
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| any abnormal tissue; usually damaged by disease or trauma such as a neoplasm, hemorrhage, granuloma |
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| a chronic pathological condition in which the muscles are affected by persistant spasms and exaggerated tendon reflexes because of damage to motor nerves of the central nervous system |
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| concerning abdominal organs |
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| the ability to perceive and recognize the form of an object placed in the hand when they eyes are closed using cues from texture, size, spatial properties, and temperature |
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| the late arriving symptoms |
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| formation of a clot inside a blood vessel; clot forms and remains local |
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| compulsive, repetitive, inappropriate stereotyped movements usually affecting the face and shoulders; habit spasms |
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| bent out, twisted; denoting a deformity in which the angulation is away from the midline of the body |
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| denoting a deformity in which an anatomical part is turned inward toward the midline of the body to an abnormal |
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| a type of dizziness, where there is a feeling of motion when one is stationary |
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| is the sensory system that provides the leading contribution about movement and sense of balance; the vestibular system controls balance. It is synaptically linked to the extrapyramidal system. Persons with extrapyramidal neurodenerative disorders also have frequent problems with balance and may experience frequent falls |
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