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If your lying face down, your?

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Prone

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If your lying on you back, your?

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Supine

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If your looking at someone’s back their standing?

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Posterior

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If your looking at someone’s face their standing?

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Anterior

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What is one technique the doctors uses during a physical exam.

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Palpitation

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What is nosocomial?

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Caused by exposure to a disease causing agent while in the hospital environment.

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What is an infectious disease?

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Caused by a pathogen.

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What is congenital?

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Caused by an abnormality in the fetus as it develops.

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What is auscultation?

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Using a stethoscope to listen to the lungs, heart, or intestines.

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What is the yellowish discoloration of the whites of your eyes called.

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Jaundice

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Foreign matter inhaled into the lungs may cause.

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Aspiration pneumonia

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What is the medical word for itching?

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Puritus

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What is the normal process of the constant shedding of dead skin cells?

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Exfoliation

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What is the tibia?

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The large bone on the inside of the lower leg.

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What category of drugs do the NSAID belong?

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Non steroids

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The surgical procedure to repair the hip is called?

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Open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF)

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The hypothalamus is located (above, below, or behind) the thalamus?

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Below

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The thalamus has functions as part of the nervous system but also deals with emotions? True or false

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True

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The parietal lobe is connected with?

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Touch

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The occipital lobe is connected with?

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Vision

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The frontal lobe is connected with?

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Speech

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The temporal lobe is connected with?

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Hearing

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Hematoma is a type of brain tumor? True of false

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False

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Ovaries are part of the endocrine system and the?

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Reproductive system

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The thymus gland is part of the endocrine system and the?

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Immune system

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Melatonin is secreted by the pineal gland, it controls what in your body?

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Sleep/wake cycle

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What is homeostasis?

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A state of equilibrium of the internal environment, so that the body can function properly.

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