单词 | nervous disorder |
释义 | nervous disorder (once / 24624 pages) n WORD FAMILY nervous disorder: nervous disorders USAGE EXAMPLESExcess mercury in drinking water has been medically linked to severe nervous disorders and birth defects. The Guardian(Dec 01, 2016) “By better techniques we see one nervous disorder after the other moving on from the functional into the organic level.” Nature(Oct 25, 2016) Zika is also linked to Guillain-Barré syndrome, a paralyzing nervous disorder. Washington Post(Jul 05, 2016) n a disorder of the nervous system Syn|Hypo|Hyper neurological disease, neurological disorder brain damage injury to the brain that impairs its functions (especially permanently); can be caused by trauma to the head, infection, hemorrhage, inadequate oxygen, genetic abnormality, etc. brain disease, brain disorder, encephalopathyany disorder or disease of the brain ataxia, ataxy, dyssynergia, motor ataxiainability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait atopognosia, atopognosisabsence or loss of topognosia; inability to locate correctly a point of touch dyskinesiaabnormality in performing voluntary muscle movements choreaany of several degenerative nervous disorders characterized by spasmodic movements of the body and limbs flaccid paralysisweakness or loss of muscle tone resulting from injury or disease of the nerves innervating the muscles ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosisthickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord; results in progressive muscle atrophy that starts in the limbs athetosisa continuous succession of slow, writhing, involuntary movements of the hands and feet and other body parts kurua progressive disease of the central nervous system marked by increasing lack of coordination and advancing to paralysis and death within a year of the appearance of symptoms; thought to have been transmitted by cannibalistic consumption of diseased brain tissue since the disease virtually disappeared when cannibalism was abandoned nerve compressionharmful pressure on a nerve (especially in nerves that pass over rigid prominences); causes nerve damage and muscle weakness epilepsya disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions apraxiainability to make purposeful movements Friedreich's ataxia, herediatry spinal ataxiasclerosis of the posterior and lateral columns of the spinal cord; characterized by muscular weakness and abnormal gait; occurs in children hereditary cerebellar ataxianervous disorder of late childhood and early adulthood; characterized by ataxic gait and hesitating or explosive speech and nystagmus tardive dyskinesiainvoluntary rolling of the tongue and twitching of the face or trunk or limbs; often occurs in patients with Parkinsonism who are treated with phenothiazine Parkinson's, Parkinson's disease, Parkinson's syndrome, Parkinsonism, paralysis agitans, shaking palsya degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by tremor and impaired muscular coordination cerebral palsy, spastic paralysisa loss or deficiency of motor control with involuntary spasms caused by permanent brain damage present at birth orthochoreaa form of chorea in which spasms occur mainly when the patient is erect Saint Vitus dance, St. Vitus dance, Sydenham's choreachorea occurring chiefly in children and associated with rheumatic fever tarantisma nervous disorder characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance; popularly attributed to bite of the southern European tarantula or wolf spider agraphia, anorthography, logagraphiaa loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion acataphasiaa disorder in which a lesion to the central nervous system leaves you unable to formulate a statement or to express yourself in an organized manner aphasiainability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion agnosiainability to recognize objects by use of the senses CJD, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Jakob-Creutzfeldt diseaserare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus; characterized by progressive dementia and gradual loss of muscle control nerve entrapmentrepeated and long-term nerve compression (usually in nerves near joints that are subject to inflammation or swelling) Huntington's chorea, Huntington's diseasehereditary disease; develops in adulthood and ends in dementia Reye's syndromeacquired encephalopathy following acute viral infections (especially influenza or chicken pox) in young children; characterized by fever, vomiting, disorientation, coma, and fatty infiltration of the liver Wernicke's encephalopathyinflammatory degenerative disease of the brain caused by thiamine deficiency that is usually associated with alcoholism disorder, upset a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning |
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