Navy Hospital Corpsman HCB Test 8 Questions And
Accurate Answers
A temporary acute paralysis or weakness of one side of the face - Answer bells palsy
rapidly alternating involuntary contraction and relaxation of skeletal muscle - Answer
clonic/clonus
rigid extension of all four extremities with hyperpronation of the forearms and plantar
flexion of the feet - Answer decerebrate posturing
posturing manifested by the obtunded pt pulling arms and hands medially toward the
center of the body in response to noxious stimuli - Answer decorticate posturing
the area of skin supplied by cuntaneous branches of single cranial or spinal nerve -
Answer dermatome
an acute inflammation of the brain and spinal cord involving the meninges often due to a
virus - Answer encephalitis
a chronic disorder characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures secondary to any
underlying brain abnormality - Answer epilepsy
muscular weakness or partial paralysis restricted to one side of the body - Answer
hemiparesis
total or partial paralysis of one side of the body that results from disease of or injury to
the motor centers of the brain - Answer hemiplegia
post infectious disorder following a nonspecific gastrointestinal or respiratory infection
, that causes an acute neuromuscular paralysis - Answer guillian barre syndrome
a sensation of prickling, tingling, or creeping on the skin having no objective cause and
usually associated with injury or irritation of a sensory nerve or nerve root - Answer
paresthesia
Status Epilepticus: a prolonged seizure or condition where the patient has two or more
seizures of the convulsive type without recovering consciousness between seizures -
Answer status epilepticus
original coordinating and controlling system for the body - Answer central nervous
system [brain and spinal cord]
nerves that enter and leave the spinal cord between the vertebrae, the 12 pairs of the
cranial nerves that move between the brain and the organs without passing through the
spinal cord and all of the body's other motor and sensory nervesAnswer peripheral
nervous system
coordinates and regulates the internal organs of the body such as cardiac muscle and
smooth muscle. it has two divisions each tending to balance the impulses of the other -
Answer autonomic nervous system
prods the body into action during times of physiologic and psychological stress -
Answer sympathetic division
fxs in a complimentary and counterbalancing way to preserve the body resources and
maintain day to day body fx's such as digestion and elimination -Answer
parasympathetic division
the brain and spinal cord are protected by -Answer skull & vertebrae
meninges
CSF
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