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What is another name for the eye socket?

A) Orbit
B) Parietal bone
C) Zygomatic arch
D) Odontoid process

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You have been dispatched to the site of a construction accident where a 36-year-old male patient was moderately cut by some machinery.His left arm has a 4" deep laceration that appears to have stopped bleeding with the gauze and direct pressure applied by his coworkers.Your knowledge of physiology suggests that which component of blood was partially responsible for forming clotting factors to stop the bleeding?

A) Platelets
B) White blood cells
C) Plasma
D) Red blood cells

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The cardiac muscle receives its supply of oxygenated blood by which of the following mechanisms?

What causes the "seesaw" breathing pattern of young children?

Which of the following is a function of the skin?

What is the largest bone of the lower leg?

Your patient is an 84-year-old male with difficulty breathing and peripheral edema.He tells you he has been suffering for many years with "heart failure" and his condition is worsening,especially with trouble breathing at night.Your knowledge of cardiovascular physiology suggests that his condition could have resulted from the failure of either the right or left side of his heart.Which chamber of the heart is the strongest,most muscular part of the heart and is primarily responsible for pumping oxygenated blood to the rest of the body?

In relation to anatomy,the term topography means :

What is the strongest and most muscular part of the heart?

What is the inferior-most portion of the sternum?

What type of muscles control the size of the bronchioles in the lungs?

Which of the following respiratory processes requires the active use of muscles?

At which of the following locations could you palpate a malleolus?

Physiology is the study of:

A clot cannot form without which of the following blood components?

Which of the following is NOT part of the upper extremities?

What vessel carries deoxygenated blood to the lungs?

Which organ secretes insulin after a person eats a large meal?

Which organ is the principal organ of the renal system?

You are on the scene at an office building where a 32-year-old male is described as having difficulty breathing and chest pain.The patient is allergic to peanuts and thinks he may have accidentally ingested some cookies with peanuts in them this afternoon during his break.He is pale with a pulse rate of 158 and a respiratory rate of 36.You understand that a "fight-or-flight" response may have been activated in this patient,involving which nervous system and which hormone?