- 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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