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The nurse is completing a health assessment of a 42-year-old female with suspected Graves' Disease. The nurse should assess this client for: 1. anorexia 2. tachycardia 3. weight gain 4. cold skin Correct Answers 2. tachycardia Graves' disease, the most common type of thyrotoxicosis, is a state of hypermetabolism. The increased metabolic rate generates heat and produces tachycardia and fine muscle tremors. Anorexia is associated with hypothyroidism. Loss of weight, despite a good appet...

What instruction should the nurse include in the discharge teaching plan of a client who had a cataract extraction today? Correct Answers Light housekeeping is permitted but avoid heavy lifting A male adult comes to the urgent care clinic 5 days after being diagnose with influenza. He is short of breath, febrile, and coughing green colored sputum. Which intervention should the nurse implement first? Correct Answers Obtain a sputum sample for culture An elder male client tells the nurse tha...

What are the characteristics of life? Describe processes carried out by living organisms. Correct Answers -cellular composition: physiological functions -metabolism: used in chemical processes -growth: more anabolism takes place then catabolism -excretion: separate and remove waste -responsiveness: react to changes in environment -movement: in cells or in the organism -reproduction: to replace cells or to yield offspring What are the structural levels of organization in order? Correct ...

Tissue Correct Answers Groups of cells (and the substance surrounding them) that usually arise from common ancestor cells and work together to perform a particular function comprise a Kidneys Correct Answers Renal physiology is the study of the function of the Catabolism Correct Answers The chemical reactions that break down large, complex molecules into smaller, simpler ones are referred to as Responsiveness Correct Answers is the ability of an organism to detect and react to changes i...

Tissue Correct Answers Groups of cells (and the substance surrounding them) that usually arise from common ancestor cells and work together to perform a particular function comprise a Kidneys Correct Answers Renal physiology is the study of the function of the Catabolism Correct Answers The chemical reactions that break down large, complex molecules into smaller, simpler ones are referred to as Responsiveness Correct Answers is the ability of an organism to detect and react to changes i...

What is the difference between anatomy and physiology? Correct Answers Anatomy is the study of the structure of body parts, whereas physiology is the study of the function of body parts What are the levels of organization? Correct Answers subatomic particles, atom, molecule, macromolecule, organelle, cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism What are the requirements of life? Correct Answers Water, food, oxygen, heat, pressure What are the characteristics of life? Correct Answers Move...

Neurons that conduct impulses from the CNS to muscles or glands are Correct Answers motor neurons. Three general functions of the nervous system are Correct Answers integrative, motor, and sensory. A myelinated nerve fiber is ______, whereas an unmyelinated nerve fiber is ______. Correct Answers white, and composing the white matter of the brain and spinal cord; gray, and composing the gray matter of the brain and spinal cord Most of the neurons in the brain and spinal cord are Correct ...

Which of the following best describes the reaction NaNO3 + HCl → HNO3 + NaCl? Correct Answers exchange reaction The function of the association area in the frontal lobe is Correct Answers higher intellectual processes, such as reasoning and judgment. Cerebrospinal fluid is produced by __________ and it __________. Correct Answers choroid plexuses in the ventricles; protects the brain from blows to the skull The anaerobic reactions of cellular respiration occur in the __________ , wher...

chromosomes consist of a. dna a lipids b. dna and proteins c. rna carbohydrates d. rna and proteins e. water and proteins Correct Answers b. DNA and proteins The cytoplasm contains the fluid ________ and the suspended ____________ a. bilayer and cytosol b. bilayer and organelles c. cytoplasm organelles d. cytosol and organelles e. plasma membrane and cytosol Correct Answers d. cytosol and organelles The functional units of DNA that contain the instructions for making protein...

Covalent Bond Correct Answers Two molecules sharing electrons Element Correct Answers Fundamental substance of matter Homeostasis Correct Answers Maintain internal environment Levels of organization Correct Answers Cell, tissue, organ, system, organism Physiology Correct Answers Study of the function of the body Anatomy Correct Answers Study the structure of body parts Catalyst Correct Answers Molecule that influences rate of reaction with out being consumed in reaction Elec...