Anatomy
The left ventricle forms this anterior portion of the heart.
What is the apex?
A 22-year-old woman is brought to the emergency room for evaluation three hours after falling backward out of a chair and striking her head onto carpeted floor. Physical examination shows no abnormalities except a 2-cm area of swelling and minimal abrasion overlying the left occiput. This would be the most appropriate next step.
What is discharging and observation by family and friends?
This is the term for when the body is maintaining a balanced state within its internal environment
What is Homeostasis?
This disease is an infection of the tissues that hold the teeth in place.
What is periodontal (or gum) disease?
This cavity is named for being a combination of the abdominal cavity and the pelvic cavity.
What is the abdominopelvic cavity?
There is a patient with a gunshot wound that has damaged this structure that divides the thoracic cavity from the abdominal cavity.
What is the Diaphragm?
What is ibuprofen?
What is mastitis?
This is the most common cause of tuberculosis in humans.
This is the term for the complex process by which teeth form from embryonic cells, grow, and erupt in the mouth.
What is Odontogenesis?
This is the surface of a tooth that touches, or is next to, the tongue.
What is the lingual surface?
You are a nurse caring for a client who is admitted after a thermal burn injury. The client's vital signs are the following:
Blood pressure is 72/48, Heart Rate is 152 beats/min, and Respiratory Rate is 26 breaths/min.
He is pale in color and you are unable to feel his pedal pulses.
This action should be taken by the nurse first.
What is begin intravenous fluids?
This is the term for a disease that is transmissible from animals to humans.
What is zoonotic?
A nurse is assessing a clinic patient with a diagnosis of hepatitis A. This is most likely the route of transmission.
What is contaminated food?
In a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial, this is the component (or value) that assists the reader of the study in determining whether the results are statistically significant.
What is the P value?
What is the musculocutaneous nerve?
A 28-year-old man comes to the physician because of a 2-month history of a rash on his wrists and hands. He is a first year mortuary science student. He also works on his grandfather's farm each weekend. His hobbies include raising homing pigeons and repairing vintage motorcycles. He recently changed to a different type of laundry detergent to save money. Physical exam shows a diffuse erythematous rash involving both hands up to the wrist creases. The rash does not extend over any other parts of the body. This is most likely the cause of the patient's rash.
What is the use of latex gloves?
This term means inflammation of the oral mucosa and is characterized by redness, pain or swelling.
What is stomatitis?
This is the common name for the disease caused by Anclyostoma spp. This disease is zoonotic and its host can cause cutaneous larva migrans in humans.
What is Hookworms?
Hormone secretion from this gland is stimulated by a decrease in the concentration of free (ionized) calcium in the bloodstream.
What is the parathyroid gland?
This flexure in the ascending colon of the horse separates the left ventral colon from the left dorsal colon.
What is the pelvic flexure?
A 7-year-old intact female Standard Poodle is presented. Her owner has noticed an increase in drinking, a couple urinary accidents in the house, and mentation changes within the last week. Yesterday, she vomited twice.
Upon physical examination, she is depressed, listless, has dark injected mucous membranes and a distended tender abdomen.
Temperature is 104F (Normal is 99.5-102.5), and Heart Rate and Respiratory Rate are within normal limits.
This diagnosis is of most immediate concern.
What is pyometra?
This is the term for inflammation of the bile duct system.
Cholangitis
This disease in "angry" cattle has been associated with Variant Creutzfedlt-Jakob disease in humans.
(The medical term for Mad Cow Disease)
This is the term for when a female bird cannot naturally expel an egg from her body and is a common cause of illness in captive female birds.
What is egg binding?