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| Activity of Daily Living (ADL) |
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| the things we normally do in daily living including any activity we perform for self care |
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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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| the inability to view or perceive things |
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| giving or receiving of nourishment |
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| a condition in which pain arises from a stimulus that would not normally be experienced as painful |
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| a drug used to relieve pain |
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| an abnormal swelling in 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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| a 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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| a condition which is characterized by the complete absence of urine flow |
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| a reflexive action which makes it partially or totally impossible to swallow |
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| a cortico-motor disorder resulting in a complete inability to form words; loss of language expression or comprehension |
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| the partial or total inability to speak in a coherent fashion |
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| the appendages that hang from the axial skeleton; upper and lower extremities (includes shoulder and pelvic girdle) |
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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 |
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| a group of diseases characterized by thickening and loss of elasticity of the arterial wall; a general term for hardening of the arteries; occurs in several forms, including atherosclerosis |
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| an accumulation of body fluid in the abdomen, resulting in a swollen, uncomfortable condition |
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| a 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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| build up 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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| part of the central nervous system which supplies the internal organs; it is divided into 2 parts: 1. sympathetic 2. parasympathetic |
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| a sensation, as of a cold breeze or a bright light that precedes the onset of certain disorders, such as epilectic seizure or an attack of migrane |
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| skull, thorax (ribs and sternum), vertebral column |
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| extremely slow or abnormally deliberate movement |
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| small sacs that cushion joints between tendons and bones |
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| a persistent, severe burning sensation of the skin, usually following injury to a peripheral nerve; a burning pain often associated with trophic skin changes in the hand or foot, caused by peripheral nerve injury |
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| quick, jerky, purposeless involuntary movements; these movements 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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| an abnormal rigor in muscle tissue characterized by jerky movements when the muscle is passively stretched. The condition is often found in cases of Parkinson's disease |
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| a muscle shortens in length and develops tension; the upward movement of a dumbbell 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 and post) standing |
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| involuntary swearing or the involuntary utterance of obscene words or socially inappropriate and derogatory remarks |
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| an 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 (ddx) |
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| a diagnosis made by comparing symptoms of two or more 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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| a disturbance of speech function due to emotional stress, to brain injury, or to paralysis, incoordination or spasticity of muscles used for speaking; stuttering or stammering |
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| impaired or abnormal interpretation of normal stimuli |
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| an impairment of voluntary movement; inability to make physical motion |
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| A partial or complete impairment of the ability to communicate resulting from brain injury |
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| a 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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| the development of tension whilst the muscle is being lengthened; e.g. the downward movement of a dumbbell in a biceps curl or when you land on 2 feet from a jump and bend your knees the quadriceps are lengthening |
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| the uncontrollable and immediate repetition of words spoken by another person |
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| the lodging of an embolus that obstucts circulation |
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| a 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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| dampens erractic motions, maintains muscle tone and truncal stability. |
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| Parts of extrapyramidal system |
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| substantia nigra, caudate, putamen, globus pallidus, thalamus, red nucleus, and subthalamic nucleus |
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| connective tissue sheath; covers, supports, and seperates 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 |
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| the rapid, irregular, and unsynchronized contraction of uscle fibers. contractions not visible under the skin and are dectectable through needle electromyography (EMG) |
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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 other insects crawling on or under the skin; a specific type of paresthesia |
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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 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 the rest; it is seen in occlusive 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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| nearsightedness; a refractive defect of the eye in which collimated light produces image focus in front of the retina under conditions of accommodation; ie light that comes in focus in front of the retina |
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| non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs used to treat inflammation, mild to moderate pain and fever; example 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 paresthesia 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 system |
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| A greatly reduced level of consciousness. The patient is not yet comatose but is close, arousing only with |
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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 complete loss of motor function; loss of movement |
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| a partial loss of motor function; muscle weakness |
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| sensation of 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 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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| a membrane that lines the outer surface of all bones, except at joints of long bones |
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| a membrane that lines the abdominal cavity 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 and awarness of position and movement of limbs and oritenation 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 cuase 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 especially 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 midsaggital, and divides the body into equal right and left sides |
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| slow hesitant speech pattern |
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| any abnormal tissue; usually damaged by disease trauma such as neoplasm, hemorraphe, granuloma |
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| a chronic pathological condition in which the muscles are affected by persisten 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 the 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 sterotyped movements usually affecting face and shoulders; habit spasms |
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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 contractions 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 to an abnormal |
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| denoting a deformity in which an anatomical part is turned inward or 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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| the sensory system that provides the leading contribution about movement and sense of balance; it controls balance; synaptically linked to the extrapyramidal system |
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