Definition of nervous disorder Nervous disorder
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What does nervous disorder mean?
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| nervous disorder - a disorder of the nervous system | ||
| neurological disorder, neurological disease | ||
| disorder, upset a disturbance of the peace or of public order | ||
| 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, encephalopathy any disorder or disease of the brain | ||
| ataxia, ataxy, dyssynergia, motor ataxia inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait | ||
| atopognosia, atopognosis absence or loss of topognosia; inability to locate correctly a point of touch | ||
| dyskinesia abnormality in performing voluntary muscle movements | ||
| chorea any of several degenerative nervous disorders characterized by spasmodic movements of the body and limbs | ||
| flaccid paralysis weakness or loss of muscle tone resulting from injury or disease of the nerves innervating the muscles | ||
| als, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, lou gehrig's disease thickening 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 | ||
| athetosis a continuous succession of slow, writhing, involuntary movements of the hands and feet and other body parts | ||
| kuru a 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 | ||
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