Solutions
A 13 year old boy presents in your office.
He denies any symptoms, shortness of breath, chest pain, or
lightheadedness on exertion.
Yet his grandmother thinks his chest "looks funny."
Upon visual examination of the chest, you note that the lower
portion of the sternum is depressed.
What disorder of the thorax would best describe this?
a. Barrel chest
b. Funnel chest (precuts excavatum)
c. Pigeon chest (precuts carinatum)
d. Thoracic kyphoscoliosis Correct Answers Funnel chest
(precuts excavatum)
A common cause of chronic cough in adults is GERD
a. True
b. False Correct Answers True
A drop of blood goes into the right atrium. Follow it throughout
the body back to the right atrium. *hint: right atrium should be
your FINAL answer, not your first, as that is where it will end
up)
Place the parts of the circulatory system in the correct order in
which the blood will travel. Correct Answers 1. tricuspid valve
2. right ventricle
3. pulmonic valve
4. pulmonic artery
, 5. lungs
6. pulmonic vein
7. left atrium
8. mitral valve
9. left ventricle
10. aortic valve
11. aorta
12. arteries
13. arterioles
14. capillary bed
15. venules
16. veins
17. superior and inferior vena cava
18. right atrium
Adventitious breath sounds may include:
a. wheezes
b. rhonchi
c. crackles
d. all of the above Correct Answers all of the above
Atrium Correct Answers Reservoir for holding blood
Common causes of adult chronic cough could be caused by:
a. cancer
b. asthma/allergies
c. gastro-esophageal reflux disease
d. all of the above Correct Answers all of the above