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Common Medical Terms Used in the Neurology Clinic
Electroencephalograph (EEG): Records the brain's continuous electrical activity by means of electrodes attached to the scalp.
Electromyography (EMG): A test to measure how well the nerves and muscles are working.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): Advanced way for doctors to see what is inside the brain or other areas of the body; this procedure is harmless and involves no radiation.
Migraine: Severe, recurrent headache, usually affecting only one side of the head and characterized by sharp pain, often accompanied by nausea.
Multiple sclerosis (MS): Degenerative disease of the central nervous system in which hardening of tissue occurs throughout the brain or spinal cord, or both.
Myasthenia gravis: Chronic progressive muscular weakness.
Neurology: Branch of medicine dealing with the nervous system and its diseases.
Neuropathy: Disease or abnormality of the nervous system.
Protocol: A precise and detailed plan for the study of a biomedical problem or for a regimen of therapy.
Seizure: Sudden onset of a disease or certain symptoms; convulsion; an epileptic attack.
Stroke: Sudden loss of muscular control, with loss of sensation and consciousness, resulting from a rupture or blocking of a blood vessel in the brain.