Biology
This structure controls what enters and leaves the cell and is made of a phospholipid bilayer.
What is the cell membrane (plasma membrane)?
This organ pumps blood throughout the body via the circulatory system.
What is the heart?
This common class of drugs is used to relieve pain and reduce fever, such as acetaminophen.
What are analgesics?
Premature death caused by cell injury
What is necrosis?
To help prevent Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) post-operatively, the nurse encourages this type of activity, which involves walking early and frequently.
What is ambulation?
This biological process converts glucose and oxygen into ATP, carbon dioxide, and water.
What is cellular respiration?
These bones protect the brain and form the structure of the head.
What is the skull (or cranial bones)?
This route of drug administration places medication under the tongue for rapid absorption.
What is sublingual administration?
This type of cellular adaptation involves an increase in the size of cells, commonly seen in cardiac muscle due to hypertension.
What is Hypertrophy?
If a patient presents with fruity-smelling breath, extreme thirst, and high blood glucose, the nurse should immediately suspect this metabolic complication.
What is Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA)?
This part of the neuron receives incoming signals from other neurons.
What are dendrites?
This muscle is primarily responsible for breathing and separates the thoracic and abdominal cavities.
What is the diaphragm?
This term describes the movement of a drug from the bloodstream into body tissues.
What is drug distribution?
This specific type of white blood cell is the first to arrive at an acute inflammatory site, typically within 90 minutes of injury.
What is a Neutrophil?
Hypertension, bradycardia, and bradypnea constitute this set of three signs, which are indicators of increased intracranial pressure (ICP).
What is Cushing’s Triad?
This process allows water to move across a semipermeable membrane from an area of high concentration to low concentration.
What is osmosis?
This type of joint allows rotational movement, such as turning the head from side to side.
What is a pivot joint?
This phase of pharmacokinetics involves the chemical alteration of a drug, primarily in the liver.
What is drug metabolism?
Can cause Butterfly rash across nose and cheeks and can cause discoid rash.
What is lupus?
In a patient with cirrhosis, this mechanism—specifically a decrease in colloidal oncotic pressure—is the primary cause of 4+ pitting edema and massive ascites.
What is hypoalbuminemia?
This process produces genetically diverse gametes by exchanging genetic material between homologous chromosomes during meiosis I.
What is crossing over?
This structure of the nephron is responsible for filtering blood in the kidney.
What is the glomerulus?
This type of drug interaction occurs when one drug increases or decreases the effect of another at the same receptor site.
What is a pharmacodynamic interaction?
A diagnostic test removing fluid or air from a pleural space.
What is thoracentesis?
A nurse must prioritize four patients: (A) one with MS complaining of vision changes, (B) one with a herniated disc and back pain, (C) one with a leg cast and tingling toes, and (D) one post-cervical laminectomy with sudden difficulty talking. Which patient requires the immediate first response?
Who is the post-cervical laminectomy patient?