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This joint is most likely to get dislocated.
What is the shoulder joint?
Lack of muscle use can lead to this condition.
What is atrophy?
This cavity is found in the posterior aspect of the body.
What is the dorsal cavity?
These cells clean up bacteria and debris in a wound.
What are macrophages?
Most of the homeostatic processes in the body respond to this type of feedback.
What is negative feedback?
This structures insulates the axon.
These parts make up the sternum.
What is the bone of the ribcage made up of the manubrium, body, and xyphoid process?
This ion can change the pH of a solution making it more acidic or alkaline.
What are hydrogen ions?
This type of infection is contracted within a healthcare setting.
What is a nosocomial or hospital-acquired (healthcare-acquired) infection?
This hardened layer helps to protect a wound while new epithelial cells regenerate.
What is a scab?
This is the outermost layer of tissue that surrounds the muscle as a whole.
This allows small molecules and nutrients like glucose to reach the brain while blocking most large molecules, foreign molecules, and most medications.
What is the blood-brain barrier?
These can affect a person's microbiome.
What are antibiotics, the birth process, and the environment- like access to dirt?
Injury to this part of the brain could result in severe personality disorder and socially inappropriate behaviors.
What is the frontal lobe?
These are areas where a person might feel pain during a cardiac event.
What is referred pain from a heart attack felt on the left arm, between the scapula, and the chest?
This is the ability of the cell membrane to allow the passage of some substances into the cell but not others.
What is selective permeability?
These directional terms can used to tell if something is closer to the body or further.
What are proximal, medial, distal, lateral?
This is the space between two neurons where they can communicate with each other using neurotransmitters.
What is the synapse?
The integumentary system is made up of these structures.
What are hair, fingernails, sweat and sebaceous glands?
This division of the peripheral nervous system can reduce the heart rate, constrict the bronchial tubes, increase digestion, and lower the blood pressure.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
These muscles help with respiration.
What are the diaphragm (enlarges the thorax), the external intercostals (elevate ribs during inspiration), and the internal intercostals (depress ribs during expiration)?
This part of the brain connects the spinal cord to the brain and contains the centers that regulate heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing.
What is the medulla oblongata?
Damage to this cranial nerve can cause paralysis of facial muscles, facial sagging, and eye lid drooping.
What is the facial nerve CN VII(7)?
This is the nerve the nurse is assessing when they ask a patient to read an eye-chart.
What is the optic nerve CN II (2)?
This ligament is found on the front part of the knee.
What is the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)?
These are considered the body's 3 lines of defense.
What are the skin and mucous membranes, non-specific, and specific immunity?
A dysfunction in this part of the brain could lead to poor balance, a spastic walk, jerky movements, and tremors.
What is the cerebellum?
This neuron sends messages from the brain to the peripheral nerves.
What is a motor neuron?
This part of the brain controls the autonomic nervous system, the pituitary gland, hunger, thirst, and is involved in multiple emotional responses including aggression, fear, and pleasure.
What is the hypothalamus?
These receptors respond to pain from tissue damage.