Across
- 2. process of recording (scan of) the spinal cord
- 7. physician who studies and treats disorders of the mind
- 9. medical term for a lack of muscle coordination
- 10. the combining form meaning sensation, sensitivity, or feeling
- 12. abbreviation for a sudden deficient supply of blood to the brain lasting a short time
- 15. the medical term meaning before a seizure or attack
- 17. disorders characterized by physical symptoms for which no known physical cause exists
- 18. paralysis of muscles on one side of the face caused by inflammation or compression of the facial nerve
- 19. fainting or sudden loss of consciousness caused by lack of blood supply to the cerebrum
- 20. abbreviation for the disease characterized by progressive muscle atrophy caused by degeneration and scarring of neurons
- 21. specialist of the mind
- 22. paralysis of half of the body
Down
- 1. the medical term for a headache
- 3. medical term for inflammation of the nerve root, meninges, and spinal cord
- 4. the combining form for the outer portion of the cerebrum that contains neuron cell bodies
- 5. medical term meaning pertaining to the cerebrum, abnormal condition of a blood clot
- 6. group of diagnostic tests that measure changes and responses in brain waves elicited by visual, auditory, or somatosensory stimuli
- 8. bleeding between the pia mater and arachnoid layers of the meninges
- 11. medical term for loosening, separating a nerve
- 13. medical term meaning tumor composed of developing glia
- 14. compulsive eating of nonnutritive substances
- 16. abbreviation for cerebrovascular accident