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Nervous system terms
| Cephal/o | Head | Cephalgia (a headache) |
| Encephal/o | Inside the head (brain) | Encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) Anencephalic (born without a brain) |
| Mening/o | Membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord | Meningitis (inflammation of the membranes) |
| Myel/o | Spinal cord | Myelogram (X-ray of the spinal cord) |
| Neur/o | Nerve | Neuroma (tumor) Neuritis (inflammation) |
| Dys | Difficult, painful, abnormal | Dyslexia (difficulty reading) |
| -cele | Hernia, abnormal protrusion of structure out of normal anatomical position | Meningomyelocele (protrusion of membranes and spinal cord) |
| -pathy | Disease, abnormality | Encephalopathy (disease of the brain) Neuropathy (disease of the nerves) |
| -plasia | Development, formation, growth | Aplasia (no development) Hyperplasia (over development) |
| -plegia | Paralysis | Hemiplegia (paralysis of one side of the body) Quadriplegia (paralysis of all four limbs) |