Anatomy & Physiology
This chamber of the heart pumps oxygenated blood into systemic circulation.
What is the left ventricle?
Excessive thirst, frequent urination, and elevated blood glucose are classic findings of this disease.
What is diabetes mellitus?
During this process, DNA is used as a template to produce RNA.
What is transcription?
This hormone decreases blood glucose by promoting glucose uptake into cells.
What is insulin?
A patient's heart rate is 125 beats/minute. What medical term describes this finding?
What is tachycardia?
These tiny air sacs in the lungs are the primary site of gas exchange between the respiratory and circulatory systems.
What are the alveoli?
A patient experiences wheezing and difficulty breathing due to reversible narrowing and inflammation of the airways.
What is asthma?
This organelle modifies, sorts, and packages proteins before transporting them within or out of the cell.
What is the Golgi apparatus?
Acetaminophen is commonly used to reduce these two things.
What are pain and fever?
A patient suddenly develops hives, lip and tongue swelling, and difficulty breathing shortly after eating peanuts. What medical emergency is most likely occurring?
What is anaphylaxis?
This part of the brain primarily controls balance, posture, and coordination of voluntary movements.
What is the cerebellum?
A patient develops sudden facial drooping, weakness of one arm, and difficulty speaking. This medical emergency should immediately raise suspicion for this condition
What is a stroke?
A person who possesses two different alleles for a particular gene is described by this term.
What is heterozygous?
Penicillin and amoxicillin belong to this broad class of medications used to treat bacterial infections.
What are antibiotics?
A patient has been vomiting repeatedly for two days and is unable to keep fluids down. Their urine output decreases and they become extremely thirsty.
What physiological problem is most likely developing?
What is dehydration?
This blood vessel carries oxygenated blood from the lungs back to the heart.
What is the pulmonary vein?
A college student presents with extreme fatigue, fever, sore throat, swollen lymph nodes, and a positive Monospot test.
What is infectious mononucleosis?
During cellular respiration, the majority of ATP is generated during this stage.
What is oxidative phosphorylation?
This medication is administered during anaphylaxis because it can rapidly counteract severe allergic reactions.
What is epinephrine?
A patient presents with:
- Severe right lower quadrant abdominal pain
- Nausea
- Fever
- Loss of appetite
- Pain that initially began near the umbilicus
What diagnosis should you suspect?
What is appendicitis?
This structure in the kidney is considered its basic functional unit and is responsible for filtering blood and forming urine.
What is the nephron?
A patient presents with fatigue, weight gain, cold intolerance, and constipation. Lab testing reveals elevated TSH and decreased thyroid hormone levels.
What is primary hypothyroidism?
A woman who is heterozygous for an X-linked recessive disorder has children with an unaffected man. This percentage of their sons would be expected to inherit the disorder.
What is 50%?
Drugs such as ibuprofen decrease inflammation partly by inhibiting enzymes responsible for producing these signaling molecules involved in pain and inflammation.
What are prostaglandins?
A patient presents with:
- Fatigue
- Pale skin
- Shortness of breath with exertion
- Low hemoglobin
- Low serum iron
- Low ferritin
What is the most likely diagnosis?
What is iron-deficiency anemia?