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CEREBRAL PALSY GLOSSARY |
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Glossary of Cerebral
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Medical lien: The right of a hospital,
doctor or health care provider to assert an interest in personal injury
recoveries to the extent of the cost of the treatment or service provided.
Medical negligence: Failure of a physician
or other medical personnel to meet the standards of conduct for duties relating
to the medical profession. Those standards are based on what a reasonable person
with the requisite knowledge and skills would or would not do.
Mental Retardation: Significantly low
intelligence and severe problems adapting to everyday life skills.
Mistrial: An erroneous invalid trial that
cannot stand in law.motion An application for a rule or order, made to a court
or judge.
Mixed Cerebral Palsy: This type of CP
affects bothe the pyramidal and extrapyramidal areas of the brain. The most
common mixed form includes spasticity and athetoid movements; other combinations
are possible.
Motor Disabilities: Disabilities that
effect a person's ability to learn motor tasks such as walking, running,
skipping, tying shoes, crawling, sitting, handwriting, and others. To be
considered a disability, the problem must cause a person to have motor
coordination that is significantly below what would be expected for his or her
age, and the problem must interfere with the activities of learning and daily
living.
Muscle tone: Defines the condition of the
muscles. Muscles that are affected by cerebral palsy will be either floppy and
loose or stiff and rigid. Poor muscle tone limits movement.
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