(neurophysiology) a nerve impulse resulting from a weak stimulus is just as strong as a nerve impulse resulting from a strong stimulus
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.Epilepsia minor
epilepsy characterized by paroxysmal attacks of brief clouding of consciousness (and possibly other abnormalities); "she has been suffering from petit mal since childhood"
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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
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare.Words connected by meaning
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any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predom…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: epilepsy, characterized, paroxysmal, attacks, brief.epilepsy characterized by akinesia
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: epilepsy, characterized, paroxysmal, attacks, brief.(pregnancy) extraction by centesis of amniotic fluid from a pregnant woman (after the 15th week of pregnancy) to aid in the diagnosis…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: epilepsy, characterized, paroxysmal, attacks, brief.(pregnancy) extraction by centesis of amniotic fluid from a pregnant woman (after the 15th week of pregnancy) to aid in the diagnosis…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: epilepsy, characterized, paroxysmal, attacks, brief.Satisfaction or reparation made by giving an equivalent for an injury, or by doing of suffering that which will be received in satisfa…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: epilepsy, characterized, paroxysmal, attacks, brief.The seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and self-consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and passions; t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: epilepsy, characterized, paroxysmal, attacks, brief.A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated "a die Incar…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: epilepsy, characterized, paroxysmal, attacks, brief.A clouding of the lens in the eye.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: epilepsy, characterized, paroxysmal, attacks, brief.A severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm, obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: epilepsy, characterized, paroxysmal, attacks, brief.epilepsy in which the attacks begins with an isolated disturbance of cerebral function (as a twitching of a limb or an illusory sensat…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: epilepsy, characterized, paroxysmal, attacks, brief.To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or underst…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: epilepsy, characterized, paroxysmal, attacks, brief.A fancied perception of flashes of light, a symptom of epilepsy; hence, epilepsy itself; convulsions.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: epilepsy, characterized, paroxysmal, attacks, brief.Explore Academic Dictionary
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