- negligence
An employer can be sued for compensation for industrial disease or injury but, for an action of negligence to succeed, it has to be proved that the job actually caused the disease, it could have been prevented by the assessment and monitoring of working conditions and that a good employer would thus have prevented it.
- neuralgia
An acute pain in a nerve or a series of nerves especially in the head or face.
- neurasthenia
An old-fashioned unspecific word usually meaning weakness of the nervous system or nervous exhaustion. Not a phrase that is used much these days.
- neuritis
Inflammation of a nerve. This may be localised to one point of the body - as in sciatica - or it may be more generally known as multiple neuritis or polyneuritis.
- neuro muscular junction
The specialised area where a motor nerve ends in close proximity to the muscle membrane and is able to initiate muscle contraction.
- neurodynamic testing
See Brachial Plexus and Adverse Neural Tension.
- neurolernma
A membranous sheath encasing a nerve.
- neurology
The scientific study of the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the nerves.
- neuroma
A tumour of a nerve.
- neuropath
An abnormality within the nervous system. A person suffering from a nervous disorder or having abnormal nervous sensibility
- neuropathy
Any disease of the nervous system.
- neurophysiology
The physiology of the nervous system.
- neuroplasticity
A phrase used in defining the relationship between soft tissues and injuries to the central nervous system and of the peripheral nerves.
- neuropsychology
Psychology based upon the study of the nervous system.
- no fault system
This is a compensation scheme such as has been set up in New Zealand and Sweden where an insurance company pays compensation following diagnosis of injury. It is not necessary to prove negligence. The schemes are said to be quick and cheap to administer but have the disadvantage of not adapting quickly to new industrial diseases or compensating where there is only a probability that the problem is work related.
- nociceptors
Nerve endings which detect and respond to painful or unpleasant stimuli.
- nosology
The branch of medical science dealing with the systematic classification of diseases usually described as the nomenclature of disease.
- nosophobia
A morbid fear of disease.
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