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Prepare for your Pathophysiology midterm exam with a comprehensive high-yield study guide covering cell injury, inflammation, immunity, fluid and electrolytes, oxygenation, and major body system disorders. Includes key concepts, definitions, and practice questions for exam success.

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pathophysiology midterm exam
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1. When a baby has been identified as having featal D. All of the above
exposure to alcohol, which assesment parameter
should be concidered
A. low birth rate
B. mental retardation
C. facial anomalies
D. All of the above

2. A nurse documents tattooing and stippling in a Gunshot wounds tattooing and
trauma patient which type of injury does the patient stapling are caused by gun-
have? powder and occur on the
skin surrounding the entrance
wound.

3. The nurse is caring for a new mother who just gave Chromsome 21
birth to a baby with Down syndrome. The nurse
explains that this syndrome is a result of trisomy
with which chromosome?

4. A couple has two offspring's one child has an au- both parents could be Carriers
tosomal recessive disease trait and one is normal
what most likely conclusion can the nurse make
about the parents?

5. If an Ovum has chromosomal nondisjunction which Monosomies and trisomies
condition could result in the embryo?

6. If the patient has liquefactive necrosis which organ Brain
should the nurse assess first? hypoxic injury to the brain re-
sults in liquefactive necrosis
because the central nervous
system contains little connec-
tive tissue.


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7. A nurse recalls that adaptive cellular mechanisms protect cells from injury adap-
function too tive cellular mechanisms actu-
ally help cells adjust to environ-
mental changes thereby pro-
tecting them from injury and
death

8. The nurse is caring for a patient with a genetic dis- cystic fibrosis is an autosomal
ease that is transmitted through autosomal reces- recessive disease
sive inheritance which is most likely the diagnosis
for the patient?

9. Which organ is most frequently affected by chronic Liver
alcohol injury

10. Which of the following statements by a clinician C.
about mutations is correct
Mutations always lead to genetic disease
A. Mutations always lead to genetic disease
B. spontaneous mutations occur as a result of expo-
sure to a mutagen
C. mutations are alterations in a normal DNA se-
quence
D. Mutations are always inherited

11. The nurse in the genetic clinic is describing a ge- Huntington disease
netic disease that leads to progressive dementia
in middle to late adulthood. Which disease is the
nurse most likely referring to?

12. Cytosine

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