NEURO CROSSWORD PUZZLE
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- 3. skull's three essential volume components
- 6. nerves that branch directly from the brain
- 8. controls skeletal muscles during complex movements and learns certain repeated movements
- 12. contains the nucleus and controls the cell's growth
- 14. part of PNS responsible for many involuntary body functions
- 17. nerve cell of the body
- 18. brain attack
- 19. inadequate blood flow
- 21. space between 2 neurons
- 24. disturbance in the muscular control of speech
- 31. mini-stroke
- 33. traumatic brain injury
- 35. controls involuntary muscles and activities in the body
- 37. Part of PNS responsible for functions the body can control
- 38. temporary loss of vision in one eye
- 40. reduction in muscle strength with a limited range of voluntary movement
- 41. non-fluent aphasia
- 42. :nerves that branch from the spinal cord
- 43. neurons that transmit information from the CNS
- 45. decreased reflexes
- 47. coverings of the brain
- 48. substantia grisea
- 49. GCS
- 50. half
Down
- 1. receives information and submits it to the cell body
- 2. The largest part of the brain
- 4. thick bundle of nerve fibers located within the spinal cavity
- 5. type of stroke that accounts for 80% of all strokes
- 7. transmits information away from the cell body
- 9. skull's three essential volume components
- 10. this part of the brain controls our temperature
- 11. substantia alba
- 13. loss of ability to recognize an object
- 15. increase in any or all of the three components within the skull
- 16. loss of motor and sensory function in all extremities
- 20. subarachnoid hemorrhage (abrev.)
- 22. accounting for about 24% of strokes
- 23. language disorder
- 24. crossing over
- 25. lower motor neurons
- 26. most important and complex part of the nervous system
- 27. responsible for control and integration of body activities
- 28. complete inability to perform any movement
- 29. skull's three essential volume components
- 30. involuntary response to stimuli
- 32. neurons that transmit information to the CNS
- 34. inability to carry out learned sequential movements
- 36. cerebrospinal fluid (abrev.)
- 39. :The study of the nervous system
- 44. medication that decrease ICP
- 46. separates the 2 cerebral hemispheres