Ptha 1409 Exam 2 Updated Questions And Correct Answers

PTHA 1409 EXAM 2 UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. What is affective pain?
Answer:
Immediate unpleasantness ascribed to a painful sensation that motivates be-haviors of escape and
avoidance to minimize injury

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2. What is anoxia?
Answer:
Absence of oxygen in the tissues

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3. What is an apical pulse?
Answer:
The pulse that is found when a stethoscope is placed on the chest wall over the apex of the heart; also
may be found by palpation

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4. What is apnea?
Answer:
The absence of breathing

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5. What is an arrhyth-mia?
Answer:
A variation from a normal rhythm

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6. What is ausculta-tion?
Answer:
Listening for sounds produced within the body by using the unaided ear or a stethoscope

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7. What is bradycar-dia?
Answer:
A slow heartbeat (<60 bpm); may be a normal finding in a well-conditioned person or an abnormal
finding

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8. What is cardiac output?
Answer:
The amount of blood that is pumped from the heart during each contraction

,Question:
9. What is diaphore-sis?
Answer:
Profuse sweating

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10. What is diastole?
Answer:
The period when the least amount of pressure is exerted on the walls or the arteries during the
heartbeat; usually indicates the resting phase of the heart

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11. What is dyspnea?
Answer:
Labored or difficult breathing

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12. What is dysrhyth-mia?
Answer:
Disturbance of a rhythm

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13. What does ectopic mean?
Answer:
Arising or produced abnormally

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14. What is expiration?
Answer:
The passive phase of respiration when the person breaths out; also referred to as exhalation

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15. What is a fever?
Answer:
Body temperature that is above the normal level (pyrexia)

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16. What does hemo-dynamic mean?
Answer:
Refers to or relating to blood flow within the organs and tissues of the body

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17. What is hyperten-sion?
Answer:
Abnormally high blood pressure

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18. What is hypoten-sion?
Answer:
Abnormally low blood pressure

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19. What does in-guinal mean?
Answer:
Pertaining to the groin

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20. What is inspira-tion?
Answer:
The active phase of respiration when the person breathes in; also referred to as inhalation

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21. What is intuba-tion?
Answer:
The insertion of a tube into the larynx to maintain an open airway

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22. What are Korotkoff sounds?
Answer:
Sounds heard during auscultatory determination of blood pressure; believed to be produced by
vibratory motion of the arterial wall as the artery suddenly distends when compressed by a pneumatic
blood pressure cuff

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23. What is mechani-cal pain?
Answer:
Pain caused by abnormal stress or strain that is placed on anatomical structures, that is muscles,
tendons, or ligaments

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24. What is motor/au-tonomic pain?
Answer:
Pain that involves various output systems of the brain, involving the involuntary sympathetic and
parasympathetic systems

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25. What is neuro-pathic pain?
Answer:
Pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system

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26. What is nociceptive-in-flammatory?

, Answer:
Pain associated with inflammation of connective tissues; nociceptive-ischemia pain associated with
insufficient blood flow and oxygen of target tissues as a result of mechanical or physiological
processes of injured tissues

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27. What is nociplastic pain?
Answer:
Pain that arises from altered nociception despite no clear evidence of actual or threatened tissue
damage causing the activation of peripheral nociceptors

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28. What does occlude mean?
Answer:
To fit close together; to close tight; to obstruct or close off

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29. What is orthop-nea?
Answer:
A condition in which breathing is easier when the person is seated or standing

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30. What is a pulse?
Answer:
A palpable wave of blood produced in the walls of the arteries with each heartbeat or contraction

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31. What is a pulse oximeter?
Answer:
A medical device that measures levels of blood oxygen saturation, monitors pulse rate, and calculates
heart rate

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32. What is a rale?
Answer:
An abnormal, discontinuous, nonmusical sound heard on auscultation of the chest, primarily during
inhalation; also called a crackle

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33. What does rectal mean?
Answer:
Pertaining to the rectum or the distal portion of the large intestine

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34. What is respira-tion?
Answer:
The act of breathing