Neurosurgery
Across
- 3. Bleeding with lucid interval
- 5. Dance like involuntary movement
- 8. Operative approach to the pituitary
- 12. Premature fusion of skull sutures
- 15. Forward bending of spine
- 16. Inability to recognise form or nature of persons/objects
- 17. Rapidly growing tumour containing glial cells
- 18. Injury to neck following rapid acceleration/deceleration
- 19. Cranial fixation device
- 20. Cutting of nerve roots for pain relief
Down
- 1. Ancient burr holes
- 2. Slipping of vertebra over another
- 4. Great cerebral vein
- 6. Malformation causing caudal displacement of cerebellar tonsils
- 7. Knife Used in stereotactic surgery
- 9. First described in Japan, narrowing of internal carotids
- 10. Plexus of spinal valveless veins
- 11. Father of modern neurosurgery
- 13. Abnormal CSF circulation characterised by fluid filled cysts in spinal cord
- 14. Bleeding into organ, commonly pituitary