Friday, October 26, 2018

10/26 vocab

This week I finished the book, The Concussion Repair Manual, by Dr. Dan Engle, pages 170-222. After that I read some online articles that pertained to my topic of TBI's. 

“Traumatic Brain Injury | TBI.” MedlinePlus, U.S. National Library of Medicine, 7 Sept. 2018, medlineplus.gov/traumaticbraininjury.html.

McAllister, Thomas W. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, Les Laboratoires Servier, Sept. 2011, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3182015/.

“Browse Head Trauma.” New England Journal of Medicine, www.nejm.org/medical-research/head-trauma.

Philipps, Dave, et al. “Traumatic Brain Injury.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 25 July 2018, www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/traumatic-brain-injury.



Phytochemical(174): Also called phytonutrient. any of various bioactive chemical compounds found in plants, as antioxidants,considered to be beneficial to human health.

Myriad (175): A very great or indefinitely great number of persons or things.

Permeable (178): Capable of being permeated.

Bioavailability(179):The extent to which a nutrient or medication can be used by the  body.

Curcumin (180): The compound C21H20O6, a major active ingredient in turmeric and
 thought to have antioxidant and anticancer properties.

Apoptosis(187):A normal, genetically regulated process leading to the death of cells and triggered by the presence or absence of certain stimuli, as DNA damage.

Detriments (205): Loss, damage, disadvantage, or injury.

Longitudinal(205): pertaining to or extending along the long axis
 of the body, or the direction from front to back,or head to tail.

Electroencephalography(207):Ainstrument for measuring and recording the electric activity of the brain.

Neurophysiological(208):The branch of physiology dealing with the functions of the nervous system.

Neuronetrix(209):The study of genetic factors that contribute to development of neurological   disorders.

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