(neurophysiology) a nerve impulse resulting from a weak stimulus is just as strong as a nerve impulse resulting from a strong stimulus
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Amnesic aphasia
inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects
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(neurophysiology) rapid fluctuations of voltage between parts of the cerebral cortex that are detectable with an electroencephalograph
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.(neurophysiology) rapid fluctuations of voltage between parts of the cerebral cortex that are detectable with an electroencephalograph
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.(neurology) the branch of medicine that deals with the nervous system and its disorders
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.(neurophysiology) rapid fluctuations of voltage between parts of the cerebral cortex that are detectable with an electroencephalograph
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.(neurophysiology) phenomenon that occurs when two or more neural impulses that alone are not enough to trigger a response in a neuron…
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.(neurology) the principle that the cortex of the brain operates as a coordinated system with large masses of neural tissue involved in…
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.(neurology) the principle that the cortex of the brain operates as a coordinated system with large masses of neural tissue involved in…
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.(neurology) the branch of medicine that deals with the nervous system and its disorders
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.(neurology) the time after a neuron fires or a muscle fiber contracts during which a stimulus will not evoke a response
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever (‘phr…
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
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inability to perceive written words
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inability, name, objects, recognize, written.inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inability, name, objects, recognize, written.inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inability, name, objects, recognize, written.inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inability, name, objects, recognize, written.A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inability, name, objects, recognize, written.Having two names; -- used of the system by which every animal and plant receives two names, the one indicating the genus, the other th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inability, name, objects, recognize, written.an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension; "I knew his name perfectly well…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inability, name, objects, recognize, written.Imperfectly spoken, as by a foreigner; as, broken English; imperfectly spoken on account of emotion; as, to say a few broken words at…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inability, name, objects, recognize, written.the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inability, name, objects, recognize, written.To spy out or discover by the eye, as objects distant or obscure; to espy; to recognize; to discern; to discover.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inability, name, objects, recognize, written.aphasia characterized by fluent but meaningless speech and severe impairment of the ability understand spoken or written words
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: inability, name, objects, recognize, written.(of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms…
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