WGU pathophysiology D236 Bundle

What is Starling's Law of Capillary forces? How does this explain why a nutritionally deficient child would have edema? CORRECT ANSWER Starling's Law describes how fluids move across the capillary membrane. There are two major opposing forces that act to balance each other, hydrostatic pressur...

Turner syndrome CORRECT ANSWER A chromosomal disorder in females in which either an *X chromosome* is missing, making the person XO instead of XX, or part of one X chromosome is deleted. Tay-Sachs Disease CORRECT ANSWER A human genetic disease caused by a recessive allele for a dysfunctional enzy...

Which types of tissue most often develop tumors? CORRECT ANSWER Epithelial and connective tissues What are the following benign tumors? CORRECT ANSWER Papilloma - A wart Lipoma - begins in the fatty tissue Myoma - Fibroid Chondroma - Tumor of cartilage cells What are sarcomas? CORRECT ANSWE...

Which types of tissue most often develop tumors? CORRECT ANSWER Epithelial and connective tissues Papilloma CORRECT ANSWER A wart Lipoma CORRECT ANSWER Begins in fatty tissue Myoma CORRECT ANSWER Fibroid Chondroma CORRECT ANSWER Benign tumor of cartilage cells What are sarcomas? CORRE...

As Diane completes her race, what enables her body to maintain homeostasis despite her increased activity? Choose 3 answers. Diane's sports drink helped to replace sodium and water lost due to sweating. Diane's body produces more angiotensin II, allowing her body to constrict blood vessels...

Warm to touch CORRECT ANSWER A patient's records indicate a diagnosis of a staph skin infection which caused a boil to develop on the patient's buttock region. Symptoms included red, swollen skin with pus. Which additional symptom can appear in the affected area? Malaria CORRECT ANSWER A patien...