Worksheet 12 Nervous System

Combining Forms Meaning Chapter Term Meaning

A. Directions: For each combining form below, write out its meaning and then locate a
new term from the chapter that uses the combining form or suffix.

1. alges/o sense of pain analgesia without a sense of pain

2. astr/o Star

3. cephal/o head

4. cerebell/o cerebellum

5. cerebr/o cerebrum

6. clon/o rapid contracting/relaxing

7. dur/o dura matter

8. encephal/o brain

9. esthes/o sensation

10. gli/o glue

11. medull/o medulla oblongata

12. mening/o meninges

13. meningi/o meninges

14. myel/o spinal cord

15. neur/o nerve

16. poli/o gray matter

17. pont/o pons

18. radicul/o nerve root

19. thalam/o thalamus

20. thec/o sheath

21. ton/o tone

23. paresis weakness

24. phasia paralysis

25. plegia muscle coordination

26. taxia pertaining to development

B. Word Building
Directions: Build a single medical term for each phrase below.

1. head pain cephalalgia

2. pertaining to the cerebellum cerebellar

3. pertaining to the cerebrum cerebral

4. record of brains electricity electroencephalogram

5. pertaining to meninges meningeal

6. pertaining to nerve neural

7. inflammation of many nerves polyneuritis

8. pertaining to the pons pontine

9. nerve root disease radiculopathy

10. pertaining to the thalamus thalamic

11. pertaining to within the meninges intrathecal

12. excessive sensations hyperesthesia

13. weakness of one monoparesis

14. lack of speech aphasia

15. lack of muscle coordination ataxia

16. nerve tumor neuroma

17. pertaining to cerebrum and spine cerebrospinal

18. half weakness hemiplegia

19. pertaining to nerve glue neuroglial

20. surgical repair of a nerve neuroplasty

C. Abbreviations
Directions: Write the medical term for which each abbreviation stands.

1. ALS amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

2. ANS autonomic nervous system

3. CNS central nervous system

4. CP cerebral palsy

5. CSF cerebrospinal fluid

6. CVA cerebrovascular accident

7. CVD cerebrovascular disease

8. EEG electroencephalography

9. HA headache

10. ICP intracranial pressure

11. LP lumbar puncture

12. MS multiple sclerosis

13. PET positron emission tomography

14. PNS peripheral nervous system

15. SCI spinal cord injury

16. TIA transient ischemic attack

D. Chart Note Stroke

Patient is a moderately obese white woman who was admitted to Riverside

Hospital because of a sudden episode or stroke. She recalls an episode of
vertigo 3 days ago. Patient is being nursed at home by her daughter because of
terminal adenocarcinoma of the head of the pancreas with metastasis to the
liver, which was diagnosed in December. Patient fell to the floor with paralysis
of the right arm and right leg and aphasia. She has not noticed any difficulty
with deglutition. Apparently with the onset of the of the stroke, she also
experienced diplopia. She denies any difficulty with her cardiovascular system
in the past. Patient was in the hospital 5 years ago because of generalized
biliary-type disease with jaundice, pruritus, cholecystojejunostomy and
jejunojejunostomy were performed.

Diagnosis
1. stroke, probably secondary to metastatic lesion of the brain or
cerebrovascular disease.
2. Evidence of the previously described deterioration secondary to carcinoma of
the pancreas with metastases to the liver.

Char Note Analysis

From the chart note above, select the medical word that means

1. loss of appetite: diplopia

2. the act of swallowing deglutition

3. double vision aphasia

4. condition of yellowness of the skin and the mucous membrane

5. a sensation of moving around in space adercarcinoma

6. a loss of sensation and voluntary movement paralysis

7. a malignant tumor of a glandular organ pruritis

8. creation of an opening between the gallbladder and the jejunum

9. pertaining to bile