A patient taking loop diuretics is MOST at risk for losing what electrolyte?
Potassium
A solution with a lower concentration of hydrogen ions, also called "basic solution"
Alkaline solution
This organ provides a passageway for air to reach the lungs from the outside.
Trachea (windpipe)
This organ aids in the digestion of lipids through the production of bile.
The liver
Glands that secrete their products into ducts that empty onto a surface or cavity. (Ex. sweat and salivary glands)
Exocrine glands
A basic mechanism for adjusting intake to compensate for excess output of body fluid.
Thirst mechanism
An arterial blood pH lower than 7.35 indicates what?
Acidosis
A life-threatening condition caused by Hib infection most common in children.
Epiglottitis
The process of splitting a glucose molecule into two pyruvic acid molecules and two ATP molecules.
Glycolysis
This hormone stimulates the breakdown of bone and causes an increase in blood calcium concentration.
Parathyroid hormone (PTH)
What hormone is released when blood volume becomes TOO HIGH and the body needs to get rid of sodium and water?
ANH (Atrial Natriuretic Hormone)
Substances that prevent a sharp change in the pH of fluid when an acid or base is added to it.
Chemical buffers
What is the term for collapsed lung tissue or collapsed alveoli?
Atelectasis
The energy that must be produced per hour by catabolic reactions just to keep the body alive, awake, and comfortably warm.
Basal metabolic rate (BMR)
The body senses a decrease in blood glucose. As a result, the endocrine cells in the pancreas start to slow the production and release of insulin. This is an example of what?
Negative feedback
A "water pushing force" that pushes fluid out of the blood in capillaries into the interstitial fluid.
Capillary blood pressure
A patient with slow respirations after an opioid overdose is likely developing what imbalance?
Respiratory acidosis
A process where gas is exchanged between the blood in systemic capillaries and the cells of the systemic body tissues.
Internal respiration
What is this?
Marasmus
This hormone is produced in a tissue and diffuses to act on cells within that tissue.
Prostaglandins
A patient with muscle weakness, diminished reflexes, and fatigue likely has what electrolyte imbalance?
A patient in DKA begins hyperventilating due to a drop in pH. What is this an example of?
Compensation
Volume moved into or out of the respiratory tract during a typical respiratory cycle.
Tidal volume (TV)
Transfer of heat energy to cooler air that is continually flowing away from the skin.
Convection
What is this?
Exopthalmos seen in Graves disease