Nervous System Disorders
Across
- 3. swelling of the brain due to inflammatory response to injury
- 4. result of marked tissue destruction of brain
- 5. third leading cause of death in the US
- 6. slight brain injury, no permanent damage
- 8. failure of the cerebrum to develop
- 11. inflammation of the meninges
- 12. loss of ability to control muscles
- 13. can impair the conduction of impulses
- 16. damage to left cerebral hemisphere where language is located
- 19. water on the brain
- 20. progressive degenerative disease of brain that results in dementia
Down
- 1. bleeding from ruptured vessels
- 2. degeneration of the basal nuclei and later or the cerebral cortex
- 7. the vertebrae forms incompletely
- 9. basal nuclei problems typically in people in 50's-60's
- 10. largest single cause of physical disabilities in children
- 14. when movements become clumsy and disorganized
- 15. temporary brain ischemia lasting from 5-50 minutes
- 17. when the spinal cord in transected or crushed
- 18. damage to the ventral root muscles