Final Flashcards
The abdominal quadrants include all of the following except the:
right medial
The term lateral is best defined as:
to the side
What word would be used to refer to a patient’s rapid breathing?
tachypnea
Which of the following BEST describes the anatomic position?
Standing, facing forward, with arms at the side, palms forward
Which of the following describes the midline of the body?
An imaginary line dividing the body into equal right and left halves
The inside of a person’s thigh is also known as its ________ aspect.
medial
The wrist is ________ to the elbow.
distal
Physiology is the study of:
body systems
Which of the following terms describes the heart muscle’s ability to generate its own electrical impulses?
automacity
Which of the following respiratory processes requires the active use of muscles?
inhalation
An artery is a blood vessel that only:
pulmonary artery
The cardiac muscle receives its supply of oxygenated blood by which of the following mechanisms?
Coronary arteries that branch off the aorta
Which of the following types of blood vessels allow the exchange of substances directly between the blood and the cells of the body?
Capillaries
What condition of immediate concern results from a loss of red blood cells due to hemorrhage?
Decreased oxygen delivery to the tissues
You are on the scene at an office building where a 32-year-old male is described as having difficulty breathing and chest pain. The patient is allergic to peanuts and thinks he may have accidentally ingested some cookies with peanuts in them this afternoon during his break. He is pale with a pulse rate of 158 and a respiratory rate of 36. You understand that a “fight-or-flight” response may have been activated in this patient, involving which nervous system and which hormone?
sympathetic nervous system and epinephrine
What is the largest bone of the lower leg?
tibia
What is another name for the shoulder blade?
scapula
What is the bone on the thumb side of the forearm?
radius
Which of the following is NOT part of the upper extremities?
Calcaneus
Your 15-year-old patient was playing baseball today and was struck in the face by a baseball bat. As you assess his injuries and manage spinal immobilization, you note that several of his teeth are broken and he seems to have deformity and pain isolated to his lower jaw. The lower jaw bone is also known as the:
mandible.
Which of the following structures closes over the trachea to protect it during swallowing?
epiglottis
What vessel carries deoxygenated blood to the lungs?
pulmonary artery
In normal exhalation, the diaphragm and intercostal muscles relax to contract the chest, which creates a positive pressure. This is what type of process?
passive
The pressure that is created when the heart pushes the blood throughout the circulatory system is called:
hydrostatic pressure.