PBS Unit 2 - Clinical Care

Physical Exam

100

Examples of these include headache, nausea, skin rash, and fever.

What are symptoms?

200

This is a normal blood pressure reading.

What is 120/80 or below?

300

These are the guidelines that help ensure privacy of patient health and demographic information.

What is HIPAA?

400

This is a likely diagnosis if you hear cracking and popping when listening to a patient's breathing using a stethoscope.

What is pneumonia? (fluid in the lungs)

500

You listen to a patient's breathing with a stethoscope and hear high pitched whistling. This is the likely diagnosis.

What is asthma or bronchitis? (whistling indicates inflamed airways)

Lab Testing

100

This measures the number of each type of cellular component of blood including red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets.

What is a Complete Blood Count (CBC)?

200

This type of lipid particle increases the amount of cholesterol present in the bloodstream.

What is LDL?

300

This condition is characterized by hyperglycemia even with the presence of insulin.

What is Type 2 Diabetes?

400

This portion of blood contains all of the dissolved nutrients, ions, hormones, and waste products.

What is plasma?

500

This measures the ratio of red blood cells to total blood volume and can be used to diagnose anemia.

What is a hematocrit?

Proteins

100

This segments of DNA contain the instructions for building a protein.

What is a gene?

200

This is created in the nucleus during the process of transcription.

What is mRNA?

300

This is where translation of mRNA by tRNA occurs.

What is the ribosome?

400

This disorder characterized by growth of benign tumors on nerve cells results from a mutation in the neurofibromin gene.

What is neurofibromatosis?

500

This type of mutation resulting from insertion or deletion results in a change in codons and a resulting change in amino acids.

What is a frame shift mutation?

Inheritance

100

This is used to help determine the probability of a genotype for the offspring of two parents.

What is a Punnett Square?

200

This is used to show the presence of traits in a family across generations.

What is a pedigree?

300

This is the process of cell division used for growth and repair.

What is mitosis?

400

This cell division produces haploid cells and can introduce chromosomal abnormalities.

What is meiosis?

500

This type of disorder is characterized by having only 1 copy of a particular chromosome.

What is a monosomy?

Grab Bag

100

This is the longest stage of the cell cycle.

What is interphase?

200

This condition is indicated by extremely high levels of serum LDL.

What is hypercholesterolemia?

300

This type of biomolecule is made up of only the elements C, H, O, and N.

What is a protein?

400

In taking a medical history, this is described as the reason a patient has come to see a healthcare provider.

What is the Chief Complaint?

500

These are the four classes of biomolecules.

What are proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, and nucleic acids?