An asthma attack can be triggered by all of the following EXCEPT ________.
A) dust and mold
B) cockroaches
C) exercise and cold air
D) coughing
QUESTION 2Your patient is a 14-year-old girl. Even though she is six feet tall, she weighs only 100 pounds. Her doctor suspects that she might have an eating disorder in which the patient de-nies food due to a compulsion to become thin.
The medical name for this condition is:
A. irritable bowel syndrome
B. Crohn's disease
C. anorexia nervosa
D. cirrhosis
QUESTION 3A/An ________ is a clip device that is placed on the patient's finger and measures the degree of oxygen saturation in the blood.
A) tracheostomy
B) spirometer
C) tomography
D) oximeter
QUESTION 4Discuss the meanings of the words radiolucent and radiopaque.
What will be an ideal response?
QUESTION 5Pancytopenia is a condition of decreased numbers of platelets in the blood.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
QUESTION 6Which syllable is the primary accented syllable in the pronunciation of the medical word auscultation (aws-kul-tay-shun)?
What will be an ideal response?