Fritz: Mosby's Basic Science for Soft Tissue and Movement Therapies
Chapter 1: The Body as a Whole
MULTIPLE-CHOICE TEST BANK
1. The study of gross anatomy covers which of the following?
a. The body divided into its systems
b. The body structures visible to the naked eye
c. Cellular physiology
d. The processes and functions of the body
2. What does physiology explain?
a. Functions of the body that support life
b. Wholeness of the structure of the body
c. Map of the body
d. Sets of opposites
3. Yin and yang combine to form a whole unit and which of the following?
a. Present the physiology of thinking
b. Form solid organs
c. Reflect the relationship of opposites
d. Do not reflect anything in the body
4. What do the characteristics of life do?
a. List the many criterion that help us define life
b. Are found in cadaver dissection
c. Are separate, nonrelating functions in the body
d. Deal only with the external actions found in our lives
5. What is the level of body organization that defines metabolism?
a. Specialization level
b. Organelle level
c. Chemical level
d. Activity level
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6. What does the tissue level of organization explain?
a. Atrophy and hypertrophy of a cell
b. Structure and function of the cell
c. Structure and function of the lungs
d. Structure and function of epithelial tissues
7. To what does the matrix of connective tissue refer?
a. Alignment of the cells
b. Basement membrane
c. Shapeless ground substance
d. Living reticular fibers
8. Blood and bone are both types of what?
a. Adipose tissues
b. Connective tissues
c. Cartilage
d. Membranes
9. Which of the following is true of the piezoelectric property of collagen?
a. Explains the deforming of the structure due to electric current
b. Liquefies the gel portion of the ground matrix
c. Is called the thixotropic effect
d. Cannot be affected by stretching, twisting, or compressing collagen tissue
10. What ability is the main characteristic of muscle tissue?
a. Coordinate and regulate body activity
b. Perform more complex body functions
c. Function in the body without any attachment to connective tissue
d. Provide movement by shortening
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,Fritz: Mosby's Basic Science for Soft Tissue and Movement Therapies
Chapter 2: Mechanisms of Health and Disease
MULTIPLE-CHOICE TEST BANK
1. Which of the following is true about the various healing arts presented in this
text?
a. Are ineffective because they cannot explain homeostasis
b. Deal only with the parts of the body, not the whole person
c. Use their own terminology to describe homeostasis
d. Keep the elements of nature separate from the body
2. What is a feedback loop?
a. The major cause of disease
b. A contribution to maintaining homeostasis
c. A disruption of our self-regulation
d. A sensor, a control center, and an effector
3. Which of the following is true of the synchronization of biological rhythms?
a. Promotes homeostasis and supports a healthy body
b. Requires sympathetic activities to predominate
c. Not affected by external components such as sunlight or weather
d. Discovered by Ultradian
4. What can massage and other forms of bodywork and movement therapies do?
a. Cause pathogenesis, which will reverse the development of disease
b. Support the body in maintaining and returning to a healthy state
c. Support the various pathologies in the body
d. Not affect the abnormal functions of disease states
5. What is the inflammatory response?
a. A major cause of disease in the body
b. A combination of processes that attempt to minimize tissue injury
c. Always separate from immune reactions
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d. Three primary signs: heat, exudation, and cell regeneration
6. What are risk factors?
a. The major cause of disease
b. Unable to be affected by changes in lifestyle or activities
c. Influences that can put a person at risk for developing disease
d. Due to a person's activities, never inherited
7. Pain is a complex, private, abstract experience that also has what characteristic?
a. Usually very easy to describe
b. Without any psychological or social aspects
c. Rarely causes a person to seek medical help
d. Not easy to define and measure
8. What is hypersensitivity to pain called?
a. Hyperalgesia
b. Intractable
c. Bright pain
d. Voluntary splinting
9. Referred pain may be a reason to do which of the following?
a. Use deeper pressure on the area of referral.
b. Refer a client to a physician for a diagnosis.
c. Disrupt signals from the cerebral cortex.
d. Initiate the reflex contraction.
10. Which of the following is true of people who experience excessive or ongoing
stress?
a. Should not have bodywork while under the stress.
b. Will not have panic or anxiety attacks.
c. Can have a decrease in immune function.
d. Are always receiving too much exposure to stimuli.
Copyright © 2002, Mosby, Inc., An Affiliate of Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.
Chapter 1: The Body as a Whole
MULTIPLE-CHOICE TEST BANK
1. The study of gross anatomy covers which of the following?
a. The body divided into its systems
b. The body structures visible to the naked eye
c. Cellular physiology
d. The processes and functions of the body
2. What does physiology explain?
a. Functions of the body that support life
b. Wholeness of the structure of the body
c. Map of the body
d. Sets of opposites
3. Yin and yang combine to form a whole unit and which of the following?
a. Present the physiology of thinking
b. Form solid organs
c. Reflect the relationship of opposites
d. Do not reflect anything in the body
4. What do the characteristics of life do?
a. List the many criterion that help us define life
b. Are found in cadaver dissection
c. Are separate, nonrelating functions in the body
d. Deal only with the external actions found in our lives
5. What is the level of body organization that defines metabolism?
a. Specialization level
b. Organelle level
c. Chemical level
d. Activity level
Copyright © 2002, Mosby, Inc., An Affiliate of Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.
,Chapter 2
6. What does the tissue level of organization explain?
a. Atrophy and hypertrophy of a cell
b. Structure and function of the cell
c. Structure and function of the lungs
d. Structure and function of epithelial tissues
7. To what does the matrix of connective tissue refer?
a. Alignment of the cells
b. Basement membrane
c. Shapeless ground substance
d. Living reticular fibers
8. Blood and bone are both types of what?
a. Adipose tissues
b. Connective tissues
c. Cartilage
d. Membranes
9. Which of the following is true of the piezoelectric property of collagen?
a. Explains the deforming of the structure due to electric current
b. Liquefies the gel portion of the ground matrix
c. Is called the thixotropic effect
d. Cannot be affected by stretching, twisting, or compressing collagen tissue
10. What ability is the main characteristic of muscle tissue?
a. Coordinate and regulate body activity
b. Perform more complex body functions
c. Function in the body without any attachment to connective tissue
d. Provide movement by shortening
Copyright © 2002, Mosby, Inc., An Affiliate of Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.
,Fritz: Mosby's Basic Science for Soft Tissue and Movement Therapies
Chapter 2: Mechanisms of Health and Disease
MULTIPLE-CHOICE TEST BANK
1. Which of the following is true about the various healing arts presented in this
text?
a. Are ineffective because they cannot explain homeostasis
b. Deal only with the parts of the body, not the whole person
c. Use their own terminology to describe homeostasis
d. Keep the elements of nature separate from the body
2. What is a feedback loop?
a. The major cause of disease
b. A contribution to maintaining homeostasis
c. A disruption of our self-regulation
d. A sensor, a control center, and an effector
3. Which of the following is true of the synchronization of biological rhythms?
a. Promotes homeostasis and supports a healthy body
b. Requires sympathetic activities to predominate
c. Not affected by external components such as sunlight or weather
d. Discovered by Ultradian
4. What can massage and other forms of bodywork and movement therapies do?
a. Cause pathogenesis, which will reverse the development of disease
b. Support the body in maintaining and returning to a healthy state
c. Support the various pathologies in the body
d. Not affect the abnormal functions of disease states
5. What is the inflammatory response?
a. A major cause of disease in the body
b. A combination of processes that attempt to minimize tissue injury
c. Always separate from immune reactions
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d. Three primary signs: heat, exudation, and cell regeneration
6. What are risk factors?
a. The major cause of disease
b. Unable to be affected by changes in lifestyle or activities
c. Influences that can put a person at risk for developing disease
d. Due to a person's activities, never inherited
7. Pain is a complex, private, abstract experience that also has what characteristic?
a. Usually very easy to describe
b. Without any psychological or social aspects
c. Rarely causes a person to seek medical help
d. Not easy to define and measure
8. What is hypersensitivity to pain called?
a. Hyperalgesia
b. Intractable
c. Bright pain
d. Voluntary splinting
9. Referred pain may be a reason to do which of the following?
a. Use deeper pressure on the area of referral.
b. Refer a client to a physician for a diagnosis.
c. Disrupt signals from the cerebral cortex.
d. Initiate the reflex contraction.
10. Which of the following is true of people who experience excessive or ongoing
stress?
a. Should not have bodywork while under the stress.
b. Will not have panic or anxiety attacks.
c. Can have a decrease in immune function.
d. Are always receiving too much exposure to stimuli.
Copyright © 2002, Mosby, Inc., An Affiliate of Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.
