Answer Choices:
A. hypothalamohypophyseal portal system
B. hypothalamohypophyseal tract
C. hypothalamus/hypothalamic duct
D. infundibular portal system
Answer:
B. hypothalamohypophyseal tract
Question: What does colloid osmotic pressure help in determining the osmotic pressure of the plasma?
Answer Choices:
a. Proteins
b. Potassium
c. Hydrogen ion
d. Chloride
e. Sodium
Answer:
a. Proteins
Question: During inspiration, contraction of the diaphragm causes the volume of the Thor’s family’s thoracic cavity to increase and the pleural pressure to decrease. The pressure in her alveoli (Palv) will _____.
Answer Choices:
a) Increase
b) Decrease
Answer:
b) Decrease
Question: One bed is available on the inpatient eating disorders unit. Which patient experiencing a weight should be admitted? a. 150 to 100 pounds over a 4-month period. Vital signs: temperature, 35.9° C; pulse, 38 beats/min; blood pressure, 60/40 mm Hg. b. 120 to 90 pounds over a 3-month period. Vital signs: temperature, 36° C; pulse, 50 beats/min; blood pressure, 70/50 mm Hg. c. 110 to 70 pounds over a 4-month period. Vital signs: temperature, 36.5° C; pulse, 60 beats/min; blood pressure, 80/66 mm Hg. d. 90 to 78 pounds over a 5-month period. Vital signs: temperature, 36.7° C; pulse, 62 beats/min; blood pressure, 74/48 mm Hg.
Answer Choices:
a. 150 to 100 pounds over a 4-month period. Vital signs: temperature, 35.9° C; pulse, 38 beats/min; blood pressure, 60/40 mm Hg.
b. 120 to 90 pounds over a 3-month period. Vital signs: temperature, 36° C; pulse, 50 beats/min; blood pressure, 70/50 mm Hg.
c. 110 to 70 pounds over a 4-month period. Vital signs: temperature, 36.5° C; pulse, 60 beats/min; blood pressure, 80/66 mm Hg.
d. 90 to 78 pounds over a 5-month period. Vital signs: temperature, 36.7° C; pulse, 62 beats/min; blood pressure, 74/48 mm Hg.
Answer:
A
Question: Tuberculosis is typically transmitted via which of the following?
Answer Choices:
A. air*
B. food
C. sexual activity
Answer:
A
Question: Which sequence correctly shows the direction of food movement during digestion?
Answer Choices:
a. esophagus → duodenum → pyloric sphincter → stomach
b. esophagus → stomach → duodenum → pyloric sphincter
c. esophagus → pyloric sphincter → stomach → duodenum
d. esophagus → stomach → pyloric sphincter → duodenum
Answer:
d
Question: What lymphoid organ disseminates T cells after a certain age?
Answer Choices:
A. tonsils
B. spleen
C. thymus
D. bone marrow
Answer:
C. thymus
Question: A decline in extracellular potassium levels can result in ____.
Answer Choices:
a. Cells to become more excitable
b. More action potentials to be generated
c. Hypopolarization of cell membranes
d. Increased permeability of cell membranes
e. Hyperpolarization of cell membranes
Answer:
e. Hyperpolarization of cell membranes
Question: Tetanus, which is caused by Clostridium tetani, is an example of which type of disease?
Answer Choices:
A. endemic
B. epidemic
C. pandemic
D. sporadic*
Answer:
D
Question: During inspiration, how does the air pressure outside the body compare with the air pressure in the alveoli?
Answer Choices:
a. The air pressure outside the body is lower than the air pressure in the alveoli.
b. The air pressure outside the body is higher than the air pressure in the alveoli.
c. The air pressure outside the body is the same as the air pressure in the alveoli.
d. The air pressure outside the body varies while the air pressure in the alveoli stays at zero.
Answer:
a
Question: Which sexually transmitted disease is caused by a bacterium that attaches to the epithelial cells of the vagina or male urethra?
Answer Choices:
a. gonorrhea
b. genital warts
c. trichomoniasis
d. pelvic inflammatory disease
Answer:
a
Question: John Snow’s work on cholera showed that a water pump on Broad Street served as a _______ for the spread of infectious disease.
Answer Choices:
A. biological vector
B. reservoir
C. mechanical vector
D. common source
Answer:
D
Question: Structurally what are lymph vessels most similar to?
Answer Choices:
A. veins
B. arteries
C. capillaries
D. arterioles
E. venules
Answer:
C. capillaries
Question: A decrease in blood oxygen stimulates which of the following?
Answer Choices:
a. an increase in erythropoietin formation, which increases red blood cell production
b. a decrease in monocyte formation, which increases red blood cell production
c. an increase in erythropoietin formation, which decreases red blood cell production
d. an increase in oxyhemoglobin formation, which decreases red blood cell production
Answer:
a
Question: At what stage of prenatal development do the major organs form?
Answer Choices:
a. fetal
b. germinal
c. embryonic
d. ovular
Answer:
c
Question: What portion of the digestive tract plays a role in the lymphatic system?
Answer Choices:
a) Peyer’s Patches
b) Duodenum
c) Liver
d) Gallbladder
e) Gastric cells
Answer:
a) Peyer’s Patches
Question: Which of the following would be considered a symptom?
Answer Choices:
A. blood pressure reading of 150/90 mm Hg
B. body ache and chills*
C. fever of 39 °C
D. heart rate of 120 bpm
Answer:
B
Question: A fruit fly lands on cow feces and then flies over to a bowl of watermelon being served at a farm picnic. The fruit fly in this example is which of the following?
Answer Choices:
A. biological vector
B. fomite
C. mechanical vector*
D. vehicle
Answer:
C
Question: Which agency monitors notifiable diseases in the United States?
Answer Choices:
A. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention*
B. Environmental Protection Agency
C. Food and Drug Administration
D. Homeland Security
Answer:
A