Patient Scenarios
A patient has a superficial laceration on the arm. This means the injury affects tissue located in this way.
What is near the surface of the body?
This gland controls many other endocrine glands and releases growth hormone.
What is the pituitary gland?
This is the main function of the skeletal system.
What is support and protect the body?
This anatomical plane divides the body into right and left portions.
What is the sagittal plane?
These accessory organs produce sweat to help regulate body temperature.
What are sudoriferous glands?
A patient has difficulty swallowing because food is not properly passing through this structure that connects the mouth and nasal cavity to the esophagus.
What is the pharynx?
This gland would most likely be affected if a patient has trouble regulating metabolism and body temperature.
What is the thyroid gland?
This is the longest bone in the human body.
What is the femur?
This body region refers to the lower back area
What is the lumbar region?
This layer of the skin is the outermost protective layer.
What is the epidermis?
A patient is in the prone position during an examination. This means the patient is lying in this way.
What is face down?
This gland may not be functioning properly in a patient with consistently high blood glucose levels.
What is the pancreas?
These thin, flattened bones help protect internal organs.
This body cavity contains the lungs.
What is the thoracic cavity?
This skin layer contains nerves, blood vessels, and glands.
What is the dermis?
A patient refuses to accept their recent diagnosis and insists the test results are wrong. This defense mechanism is being demonstrated.
What is denial?
These glands is the source of aldosterone, cortisol, epinephrine and norepinephrine
What are the adrenal glands?
This type of joint allows rotational movement and is found between the first two vertebrae in the neck.
What is a pivot joint?
This anatomical plane divides the body into superior and inferior portions.
What is the transverse plane?
These glands release oil that helps keep the skin and hair from drying out.
What are sebaceous glands?
A patient is placed in the supine position for an abdominal examination. This means the patient is lying in this way.
What is face up?
A patient has trouble maintaining a normal sleep-wake cycle due to problems with melatonin production. Dysfunction of this gland may be responsible.
What is the pineal gland?
A patient experiences trauma to the skull, ribs, and vertebral column during a car accident. These structures are all part of this division of the skeletal system.
What is the axial skeleton?
A patient experiences swelling and bleeding in the cavity that contains the brain after a head injury. This cavity is affected.
What is the cranial cavity?
A patient with severe damage to the subcutaneous layer may struggle to maintain body heat because this function of the layer is impaired.
What is insulation/protection from heat loss?