Neuromuscular and Nervous System Terminology

Question 1

Agnosia

Answer 1

Inability to interpret information

Question 2

Agraphesthesia

Answer 2

Inability to recognize symbols, letters, or numbers traced on skin

Question 3

Agraphia

Answer 3

Inability to write

Question 4

Alexia

Answer 4

Inability to read or comprehend written language

Question 5

Anosognosia

Answer 5

Denial or unawareness of illness, often associated with unilateral neglect

Question 6

Astereognosis

Answer 6

Inability to recognized objects by touch

Question 7

Constructional apraxia

Answer 7

Inability to reproduce geometric figures and designs. Often unable to visually analyze how to perform a task.

Question 8

Decerebrate rigidity

Answer 8

Due to corticospinal lesion at level of brainstem that results in extension of trunk and extremities.

Question 9

Decorticate rigidity

Answer 9

Due to corticospinal lesion at level of diencephalon where LEs are in extension and UEs are in flexion

Question 10

Dysprosody

Answer 10

Impairment in rhythm and inflection of speech

Question 11

Emotional lability

Answer 11

Unable to control emotions, outburts of laughing or crying inconsistent with situation. Due to R hemisphere infarct.

Question 12

Homonymous hemianopsia

Answer 12

Loss of R or L half of field of vision in both eyes

Question 13

Ideational apraxia

Answer 13

Inability to formulate an initial motor plan and sequence tasks

Question 14

Ideomotor apraxia

Answer 14

Able to plan movement or task but unable to perform

Question 15

Neologism

Answer 15

Substitution within a word that makes word unrecognizable