The abbreviation LLQ is

The patient, who had sagging of the right side of his mouth and was unable to close his right eye, received a prescription for prednisone to reduce edema of the facial nerve. This paralysis of muscles on one side of the face is called:

The combining form myel/o is defined as:

The term that means excision of a nerve is:

The term shunt is defined as a:

The term that means softening of the spinal cord is:

The abbreviation for a sudden deficient supply of blood to the brain lasting a short time is:

The term meningomyelocele means that there is a protrusion through a neural arch defect in the vertebral column of the meninges and the:

An incision into a nerve root is called a:

The term ataxia is defined as a: