Head to Toe Assessment Questions and
Correct Answers
Signs
✓ ~~~ Objective data perceived by the examiner, can be seen, heard, measured, and
verified by more than one person
Symptoms
✓ ~~~ Subjective data perceived by the patient, examples include pain, nausea,
vertigo, and anxiety
Disease
✓ ~~~ Any disturbance of a structure or function of the body, recognized by a set of
signs and symptoms
Origins of Disease
✓ ~~~ Disease originates from causes like hereditary, congenital, inflammatory,
degenerative, infectious, deficiency, metabolic, neoplastic, traumatic, and
environmental factors
Risk Factors for Development of Disease
✓ ~~~ Situations, habits, environmental conditions, genetic predispositions, or other
factors increasing vulnerability to illness or accident
Infection
✓ ~~~ Caused by invasion of microorganisms like bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites
that produce tissue damage
, Inflammation
✓ ~~~ Protective response of body tissues to irritation, injury, or invasion by disease-
producing organisms
Assessment
✓ ~~~ Process involving evaluation of a patient's condition, including medical history,
signs, and symptoms
Chronic
✓ ~~~ Persisting over a long period of time
Remission
✓ ~~~ Temporary or permanent decrease in severity of disease symptoms
Acute
✓ ~~~ Having rapid onset and severe symptoms
Organic disease
✓ ~~~ Disease with physical or physiological cause
Functional disease
✓ ~~~ Disease without physical or physiological cause
Anorexia
Correct Answers
Signs
✓ ~~~ Objective data perceived by the examiner, can be seen, heard, measured, and
verified by more than one person
Symptoms
✓ ~~~ Subjective data perceived by the patient, examples include pain, nausea,
vertigo, and anxiety
Disease
✓ ~~~ Any disturbance of a structure or function of the body, recognized by a set of
signs and symptoms
Origins of Disease
✓ ~~~ Disease originates from causes like hereditary, congenital, inflammatory,
degenerative, infectious, deficiency, metabolic, neoplastic, traumatic, and
environmental factors
Risk Factors for Development of Disease
✓ ~~~ Situations, habits, environmental conditions, genetic predispositions, or other
factors increasing vulnerability to illness or accident
Infection
✓ ~~~ Caused by invasion of microorganisms like bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites
that produce tissue damage
, Inflammation
✓ ~~~ Protective response of body tissues to irritation, injury, or invasion by disease-
producing organisms
Assessment
✓ ~~~ Process involving evaluation of a patient's condition, including medical history,
signs, and symptoms
Chronic
✓ ~~~ Persisting over a long period of time
Remission
✓ ~~~ Temporary or permanent decrease in severity of disease symptoms
Acute
✓ ~~~ Having rapid onset and severe symptoms
Organic disease
✓ ~~~ Disease with physical or physiological cause
Functional disease
✓ ~~~ Disease without physical or physiological cause
Anorexia
