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Specific terms are used to represent the gross anatomy of the brain: A gyrus is an outward folding of the brain, for example the precentral gyrus. A sulcus is an inward fold, or valley in the brain's surface - for example the central sulcus. Additional terms used to describe these may include:
This is a list of major and frequently observed neurological disorders (e.g., Alzheimer's disease), symptoms (e.g., back pain), signs (e.g., aphasia) and syndromes (e.g., Aicardi syndrome). There is disagreement over the definitions and criteria used to delineate various disorders and whether some of these conditions should be classified as ...
Neurosurgery – or neurological surgery, is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, surgical treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord, central and peripheral nervous system, and cerebrovascular system.
neurology: normal physiology: electroencephalographic alpha wave Bezold–Jarisch reflex: Albert von Bezold, Adolf Jarisch: pharmacology, toxicology: effect of certain alkaloids: apnea, bradycardia, hypotension Bielschowsky's head tilt test: Alfred Bielschowsky: neurology, ophthalmology: lesions of cranial nerve IV: test for palsy of superior ...
Micrograph of a vasculitic neuropathy.Plastic embedded. Toluidine blue stain.. Neuropathology is the study of disease of nervous system tissue, usually in the form of either small surgical biopsies or whole-body autopsies.
This glossary covers terms found in the psychiatric literature; the word origins are primarily Greek, but there are also Latin, French, German, and English terms. Many of these terms refer to expressions dating from the early days of psychiatry in Europe; some are deprecated, and thus are of historic interest.
Neurology (from Greek: νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the nervous system, which comprises the brain, the spinal cord and the peripheral nerves. [1]
Neurology is the branch of medicine that deals with diseases of the nervous system. Subcategories. This category has the following 13 subcategories, out of 13 total ...