Neurological Glossary
Neurological terms are often complicated and difficult to understand. The following glossary defines a variety of terms to help you understand neurological terminology:
Jacksonian march
Contiguous spread of electrical discharges through superficial cortex occurring with some seizures manifested by spread of muscular jerks to contiguous anatomical areas
Jefferson fracture
Burst fracture of the anterior and posterior arches of C1 due to axial loading; typically stable
Jitter
Measure of the variability of potentials of two muscle fibres innervated by an individual axon as measured by single fibre electromyography; increased in myasthenia gravis
Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME)
Primary generalized epilepsy syndrome usually beginning between ages 5 to 17 years