Ch 4 Quiz Flashcards
T/F: A disease is called acute when it starts abruptly and has a short lived duration.
TRUE
T/F: Anatomy refers to the study of the nature of living things.
FALSE
A factured bone is a common __________ injury
Trauma
The __________ plane divides the body into front and back portions
Coronal
T/F: Vital signs and other results from a patient’s physical ecam are considered part of the medical records’ assesment.
FALSE- this is the objective
T/F: Dizziness as reported by the patient is considered a sign.
FALSE
PET scan reveals area of the body with unusually high:
Metabolic rate
Information obtained from a patient’s physical exam is classified as a _________
Sign
What category of a patient’s medical chart does the diagnostic imagining fall?
Plan
Psoriasis is a skin condition, which lasts a lifetime. Thus, psoriasis is classified as ________
Chronic
What does the suffix -gnosis mean?
Knowledge
T/F: another name for ultrasound imaging is MRI
FALSE
Pain and pressure are usually classified as _________ because they are described by the patient
Symptoms
___________ is the component of the medical record obtained from pt’s description of their symptoms
Subjective
T/F: Rx is considered part of the plan for a pt med record
TRUE
Fever is a common __________ of ______________ disease
Sign; infectious
Suffix means process of veiwing
-scopy
Which of the following is NOT an acronym for diagnostic imaging tools? CAT MRI UIS PET
UIS
Symptoms are _____ by _________. Signs are _______ by ___________.
Decscribed, patients, measured, medical personnel
The head is __________ to the neck
Superior
A pain ranking of 8 out of 10 is classified as
Subjective symptom
When bodily fuctions fail to maintain homeostasis, a condition of instability, known as _____, results.
Disease
The ___________ plane divids the body into front and back portions
Coronal
A physician who specialized in the study of disease
Pathologist
Pathology means
Study of disease
Pain and pressure are usually classified as symptoms because they are
Described by the patient
Simplest to most complex building blocks
Cell > tissue > organs > systems
The most basic form of life in the body is the
Cell
Common synonym of CAT scan
CT
Rank smallest to largest of subcellular parts
Atom > molecules > organelles
