Consider the following excerpt from a clinician’s notes following completion of a neurologic examination. Provide the medical terms meaning of the following terms.
Patient is a 25-year-old female in for follow-up after treatment of generalized neuralgia after being involved in a motor vehicle accident two weeks ago. Despite anti-inflammatory and analgesic therapy, the patient continues to experience cephalalgia and paresthesia of the left side. CT scan showed intracranial bleeding with evidence of increasing pressure.
1. neuralgia
2. analgesic
3. cephalalgia
4. paresthesia
5. intracranial
A. Nerve pain
B. Drug used to relieve pain
C. Headache
D. Abnormal sensation of numbness in the nerves
E. Within the cranium
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