NUSA 203 Exam Questions and Answers Latest Update 2025
Agnosia - Answers loss of sensory comprehension and ability to recognize familiar sensory stimulation,
including facial recognition
Amnesia - Answers loss of memory
Anomia - Answers an inability to find words
Aphasia - Answers problems with speech (expressive aphasia) and/or language (receptive aphasia)
Apraxia - Answers impairment in performing familiar movements; apraxia of speech is a motor speech
disorder affecting the ability to form words
Aura - Answers a sensation (e.g. visual changes) that signals the onset of a migraine headache or seizure
Autonomic dysreflexia (AD) - Answers a condition that emerges soon after a spinal cord injury, usually
when the damage has occurred at or above the T6 level
Bradykinesia/Akinesia - Answers slow movement/no movement
Clonus - Answers rhythmic jerking of all extremities during a seizure
Cough assist - Answers a technique in which an assistant places both hands on the patient's upper
abdomen over the diaphragm and below the ribs. Hands are placed one over the other with fingers
interlocked and away from the skin while the patient takes a breath and coughs during expiration. The
assistant locks elbows and pushes inward and upward as the patient coughs.
Decerebration - Answers abnormal movement with rigidity characterized by extension of the arms and
legs, pronation of the arms, plantar flexion, and opisthotonos (body spam in which the body is bowed
forward)
Decortication - Answers abnormal motor movement seen in the patient with lesions that interrupt the
corticospinal pathways.
Diplopia - Answers double vision
Dysarthria - Answers difficulty speaking due to slurred speech
Dyskinesia - Answers the inability to perform voluntary movement
Dysmetria - Answers inability to direct or limit movement
Dysphagia - Answers difficulty swallowing
Electroencephalography (EEG) - Answers a diagnostic test that records the electrical activity of the
cerebral hemispheres of the brain. The frequency, amplitude and characteristics of the brain waves are
recorded.
Agnosia - Answers loss of sensory comprehension and ability to recognize familiar sensory stimulation,
including facial recognition
Amnesia - Answers loss of memory
Anomia - Answers an inability to find words
Aphasia - Answers problems with speech (expressive aphasia) and/or language (receptive aphasia)
Apraxia - Answers impairment in performing familiar movements; apraxia of speech is a motor speech
disorder affecting the ability to form words
Aura - Answers a sensation (e.g. visual changes) that signals the onset of a migraine headache or seizure
Autonomic dysreflexia (AD) - Answers a condition that emerges soon after a spinal cord injury, usually
when the damage has occurred at or above the T6 level
Bradykinesia/Akinesia - Answers slow movement/no movement
Clonus - Answers rhythmic jerking of all extremities during a seizure
Cough assist - Answers a technique in which an assistant places both hands on the patient's upper
abdomen over the diaphragm and below the ribs. Hands are placed one over the other with fingers
interlocked and away from the skin while the patient takes a breath and coughs during expiration. The
assistant locks elbows and pushes inward and upward as the patient coughs.
Decerebration - Answers abnormal movement with rigidity characterized by extension of the arms and
legs, pronation of the arms, plantar flexion, and opisthotonos (body spam in which the body is bowed
forward)
Decortication - Answers abnormal motor movement seen in the patient with lesions that interrupt the
corticospinal pathways.
Diplopia - Answers double vision
Dysarthria - Answers difficulty speaking due to slurred speech
Dyskinesia - Answers the inability to perform voluntary movement
Dysmetria - Answers inability to direct or limit movement
Dysphagia - Answers difficulty swallowing
Electroencephalography (EEG) - Answers a diagnostic test that records the electrical activity of the
cerebral hemispheres of the brain. The frequency, amplitude and characteristics of the brain waves are
recorded.
