NURS5315 Exam 1 2025/2026 Exam
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What is the process by which excitable cells transmit information to one another? -
🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Action Potential
What types of cells use the action potential? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Nerve and Muscle
What potassium imbalance hypopolarizes the cell? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Hyperkalemia
Does hypopolarization cause increased excitability of cells or decreased
excitability of cells? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Increased
Which potassium imbalance causes hypopolarization of the cell? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Hyperkalemia
In which calcium imbalance is the cell more excitable? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Hypocalcemia
,Which calcium imbalance leads to cirmumoral paresthesias? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Hypocalcemia
In which calcium imbalance do lethargy, confusion, and hyporeflexia occur? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Hypercalcemia
Cardiomegaly is a pathologic expression of what disease? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Hypertrophy
Which adaptation pattern causes the endometrial lining to grow r/t excess
estrogen? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Hyperplasia
Metaplasia of cells in esophagus; due to GERD; squamous cells changed to
columnar cells - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Barrett's esophagus
The thymus gland shrinking during childhood is a _______________ example of
_________________. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Physiologic;Atrophy
Liver regeneration is a _______________ example of _________________. - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Physiologic;Hyperplasia
What is the most common cause of hypoxic injury? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Ishcemia
Loss of hemoglobin leads to ____________ injury. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Hypoxic
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, Reperfusion injury leads to ___________ overload. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Calcium
Tissue transplantation may cause _______________ injury. - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Reperfusion
Molecules with an unpaired electron in the outer shell - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Free
radicals
___________ is a normal byproduct of ATP production that can lead to
___________ from exhaustion of intracellular antioxidants. - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS); Oxidative Stress
What type of injury can lead to Wernicke encephalopathy? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Ethanol
Phosphorus deficiency r/t ethanol injury increases risk for ____________________
- 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Rhabdomyolysis (Muscle Breakdown)
What 4 deficiencies are caused by ethanol injuries? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Folic Acid,
magnesium, B6, phosphorus
Smooth philtrum, thin vermilion border, and small palpebral fissures are signs of
_______________. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
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What is the process by which excitable cells transmit information to one another? -
🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Action Potential
What types of cells use the action potential? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Nerve and Muscle
What potassium imbalance hypopolarizes the cell? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Hyperkalemia
Does hypopolarization cause increased excitability of cells or decreased
excitability of cells? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Increased
Which potassium imbalance causes hypopolarization of the cell? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Hyperkalemia
In which calcium imbalance is the cell more excitable? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Hypocalcemia
,Which calcium imbalance leads to cirmumoral paresthesias? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Hypocalcemia
In which calcium imbalance do lethargy, confusion, and hyporeflexia occur? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Hypercalcemia
Cardiomegaly is a pathologic expression of what disease? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Hypertrophy
Which adaptation pattern causes the endometrial lining to grow r/t excess
estrogen? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Hyperplasia
Metaplasia of cells in esophagus; due to GERD; squamous cells changed to
columnar cells - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Barrett's esophagus
The thymus gland shrinking during childhood is a _______________ example of
_________________. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Physiologic;Atrophy
Liver regeneration is a _______________ example of _________________. - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Physiologic;Hyperplasia
What is the most common cause of hypoxic injury? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Ishcemia
Loss of hemoglobin leads to ____________ injury. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Hypoxic
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, Reperfusion injury leads to ___________ overload. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Calcium
Tissue transplantation may cause _______________ injury. - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Reperfusion
Molecules with an unpaired electron in the outer shell - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Free
radicals
___________ is a normal byproduct of ATP production that can lead to
___________ from exhaustion of intracellular antioxidants. - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS); Oxidative Stress
What type of injury can lead to Wernicke encephalopathy? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Ethanol
Phosphorus deficiency r/t ethanol injury increases risk for ____________________
- 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Rhabdomyolysis (Muscle Breakdown)
What 4 deficiencies are caused by ethanol injuries? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Folic Acid,
magnesium, B6, phosphorus
Smooth philtrum, thin vermilion border, and small palpebral fissures are signs of
_______________. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
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