Brain Injury
Injury to the brain that is not hereditary, congenital, degenerative, or induced birth or trauma.
Acquired brain injury (ABI).
Decrease in blood pressure upon assuming an erect posture.
Orthostatic hypotension.
Outer, most superficial layer of skin.
Epidermis
Type of attention in which the patient is asked to shift focus between tasks.
Alternating attention.
The primary visual cortex.
Occipital Lobe
A long "wire" that transmits signals electrochemically from one cell to another.
Axon.
DAILY DOUBLE!
Define hemoptysis.
Blood in the sputum (coughing up blood).
The process in which necrotic tissue is removed to aid in the healing process- may be selective or non-selective.
Debridement
Permanent consolidation and storage of information lasting a lifetime.
Long-term memory.
Primary auditory cortex.
Temporal Lobe
The ability of the nervous system to change itself, to form new connections and create new neurons in order to compensate for injury.
Neuroplasticity.
Amount of air that is inhaled and exhaled during normal resting breathing.
Tidal Volume
When using the ABCD examination method for Melanoma the D stands for...
Diameter.
Most significant when >6mm (pencil eraser).
Planning, reasoning, judgement, abstract thinking, problem solving, and decision making are all...
Executive functions.
The precentral gyrus (primary motor cortex for voluntary muscle activation) is located in which lobe?
Frontal Lobe
Condition diagnosed after death, relative to multiple concussions caused by a significant force.
This progressive degenerative disease is most often sustained by athletes participating in contact sports.
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
A genetically inherited disease, characterized by thickening of secretions of all exocrine glands, leading to obstruction.
Cystic fibrosis.
Which of the following is not part of the inflammatory phase:
Characterized by redness.
Presence of granulation buds.
Ends in 3-5 days.
Presence of neutrophils and macrophages.
Presence of granulation buds.
Cognitive domain defined by self awareness and knowledge of one's own thought processes (ex. strengths and weaknesses).
Metacognition.
This "system" is concerned with instincts and emotions. Functions include feeding, aggression, endocrine aspects of sexual response, and long-term memory formation.
Limbic system.
Term for this state of consciousness:
Complete absence of behavioral evidence for awareness of self or environment, stimulus-induced arousal, demonstrates sleep/wake cycle, may open eyes at times.
Vegetative state.
In a ECG (EKG), the QRS wave represents what?
Ventricular depolarization.
Vacuum-assisted closure.
Sometimes referred to as muscle memory, this form of implicit memory allows people to remember how to tie their shoes without consciously thinking about it.
Procedural memory.
Which of these is not part of the Diencephalon:
Hypothalamus.
Thalamus.
Medulla Oblongata.
Subthalamus.
Medulla Oblongata.