What is the process by which excitable cells transmit information to one
another? - Correct Answer - Action Potential
What types of cells use the action potential?
- Correct Answer - Nerve and Muscle
What potassium imbalance hypo polarizes the cell?
- Correct Answer - Hyperkalemia
Does hypopolarization cause increased excitability of cells or decreased
excitability of cells? - Correct Answer - Increased
Which potassium imbalance causes hypo polarization of the cell?
- Correct Answer - Hyperkalemia
,In which calcium imbalance is the cell more excitable?
- Correct Answer - Hypocalcemia
Which calcium imbalance leads to circumoral paresthesia’s?
- Correct Answer - Hypocalcemia
In which calcium imbalance do lethargy, confusion, and hyporeflexia occur?
- Correct Answer - Hypercalcemia
Cardiomegaly is a pathologic expression of what disease?
- Correct Answer - Hypertrophy
Which adaptation pattern causes the endometrial lining to grow r/t excess
estrogen? - Correct Answer - Hyperplasia
Metaplasia of cells in esophagus; due to GERD; squamous cells changed
to columnar cells - Correct Answer - Barrett's esophagus
The thymus gland shrinking during childhood is a _______________
example of _________________.
- Correct Answer - Physiologic; Atrophy
, Liver regeneration is a _______________ example of
_________________.
- Correct Answer - Physiologic; Hyperplasia
What is the most common cause of hypoxic injury?
- Correct Answer - Ishcemia
Loss of hemoglobin leads to ____________ injury.
- Correct Answer - Hypoxic
Reperfusion injury leads to ___________ overload.
- Correct Answer - Calcium
Tissue transplantation may cause _______________ injury.
- Correct Answer - Reperfusion
Molecules with an unpaired electron in the outer shell
- Correct Answer - Free radicals
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