| acalculia | Loss or impairment of the ability to perform arithmetic calculations, resulting from injury to the brain. Cf. dyscalculia n. | 1926 | Go To Quotation |
| acromegalic | Affected with acromegaly; of, relating to, or characteristic of acromegaly. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| afterload | trans. Physiol. To subject (a muscle) to an afterload (afterload n. 2). | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| algesic | Of or relating to algesia; involved in or producing algesia. Cf. algetic adj. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| allochiria | Originally: a condition in which a person is unable to determine on which side of the… | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| amusia | A condition in which there is the loss of a musical ability, such as the comprehension… | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| amyotonia | Lack of muscle tone; spec. (in full amyotonia congenita), any of several rare… | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| archistriatal | Relating to or located in the archistriatum. | 1913 | Go To Quotation |
| Berger rhythm | = alpha rhythm at alpha adj. 3a. | 1934 | Go To Quotation |
| dendron | = dendrite n. 3. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| dysprosody | A speech disorder affecting inflection, stress, and rhythm, sometimes found in aphasic conditions. | 1947 | Go To Quotation |
| electroencephalographist | = electroencephalographer n. | 1941 | Go To Quotation |
| epicritic | An epithet used to designate the finer discriminations of the senses, particularly of… | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| fasciculation | Physiol. Uncoordinated twitching of a muscle, esp. that involving the simultaneous… | 1938 | Go To Quotation |
| Hurler | = gargoylism n. 2. | 1937 | Go To Quotation |
| hyperextend | trans. To extend, in the sense opp. to flex v., (a joint, or a part of the body moving… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| hypertonicity | Med. Of muscle or muscular tissue (see hypertonic adj. 1); = hypertonia n. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| kernicterus | The staining of nuclei of the brain cells with bilirubin, which sometimes occurs… | 1912 | Go To Quotation |
| macroglia | Relatively large neuroglial cells derived from the neural plate, esp.… | 1924 | Go To Quotation |
| meningioma | Any of a group of tumours, usually benign, that arise from the meninges (spec.… | 1922 | Go To Quotation |
| metalloscopy | The determination of the correct type of metal to be used for the treatment of a… | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| mirror-writer | A person who produces mirror writing. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| mother–son | orig. and chiefly Social Sciences. Of, relating to or designating the relationship between… | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| musicogenic | Designating a form of epilepsy in which seizures are precipitated by music; (also) designating an epileptic seizure of this kind. | 1937 | Go To Quotation |
| myasthenia gravis | An autoimmune disease characterized by skeletal muscle weakness, especially involving… | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| myelinate | trans. To enclose (a nerve fibre or fibres) in myelin. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| myelinoclasis | Destruction of the myelin sheath of nerve fibres; demyelination. | 1932 | Go To Quotation |
| myotonia | Persistent contraction of skeletal muscle after the cessation of voluntary effort or… | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| myxofibroma | A fibroma with mucoid stroma. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| neuropilema | = neuropil n. 1. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| neurosal | Of the nature of or relating to a neurosis; neurotic. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| oligodendroglia | (With sing. concord) supportive tissue of the central nervous system consisting… | 1924 | Go To Quotation |
| optomotor | = optokinetic adj. | 1926 | Go To Quotation |
| palaeostriatum | The phylogenetically older portion of the corpus striatum, corresponding (in mammals) to the globus pallidus. | 1913 | Go To Quotation |
| panencephalitis | Inflammation of white and grey matter of the brain; diffuse or generalized… | 1950 | Go To Quotation |
| paramyoclonus | More fully paramyoclonus multiplex. An inherited (autosomal dominant) form of… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| parkinsonism | A syndrome resembling Parkinson's disease but associated with other diseases of the… | 1923 | Go To Quotation |
| percutaneously | Through the skin. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| porencephalous | = porencephalic adj. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| porencephalus | = porencephaly n. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| porencephaly | A disorder characterized by the presence of one or more, usually congenital, cyst-like… | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| propositionize | intr. To utter propositional speech, or formulate propositional language (see propositional adj. 2). | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| psychogalvanic | Designating the galvanic skin response (esp. in psychogalvanic reflex, psychogalvanic response… | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| stereotaxic | Involving or designed for the accurate three-dimensional positioning and movement of objects inside the brain. | 1908 | Go To Quotation |
| strobic | That has a spinning motion. strobic circles n. sets of concentric circles, toothed wheels… | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
