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NUR 104 EXAM 1 QUESTION AND ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
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ESTUDYNUR 104 EXAM 1 QUESTION AND ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
### 1. What is the correct order of skills performed in a physical examination?
A) Percussion, palpation, auscultation, inspection
B) Inspection, palpation, percussion, auscultation
C) Auscultation, percussion, inspection, palpation
D) Palpation, inspection, auscultation, percussion
**Answer: B) Inspection, palpation, percussion, auscultation**
### 2. What does waist circumference assess?
A) Height
B) Body fat distribution as an indicator of health risk
C) Muscle strength
D) None of the above
**Answer: B) Body fat distribution as an indicator of health risk**
### 3. How is waist circumference measured?
A) At the navel
B) Right below the rib cage and above the iliac crest
C) At the hips
D) None of the above
**Answer: B) Right below the rib cage and above the iliac crest**
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### 4. What causes hypopituitary dwarfism?
A) Excess growth hormone
B) Deficient growth hormone and delayed puberty
C) Genetic factors
D) Environmental factors
**Answer: B) Deficient growth hormone and delayed puberty**
### 5. What characterizes achondroplastic dwarfism?
A) Short arms, legs, and pronounced lordosis
B) Tall stature
C) Normal proportions
D) Overgrowth of extremities
**Answer: A) Short arms, legs, and pronounced lordosis**
### 6. What is gigantism caused by?
A) Deficient growth hormone
B) Excess growth hormone and delayed genital development
C) Environmental factors
D) Genetic mutation
**Answer: B) Excess growth hormone and delayed genital development**
### 7. What is acromegaly?
A) Short stature
B) Overgrowth of face, hands, and feet
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C) Loss of muscle
D) Decreased growth hormone
**Answer: B) Overgrowth of face, hands, and feet**
### 8. What condition is indicated by endogenous obesity?
A) Malnutrition
B) Cushing syndrome (moon face)
C) Dwarfism
D) None of the above
**Answer: B) Cushing syndrome (moon face)**
### 9. What is Marfan syndrome characterized by?
A) Short stature
B) Long limbs and risk of aortic distension
C) Obesity
D) Normal growth
**Answer: B) Long limbs and risk of aortic distension**
### 10. What is pulse pressure?
A) Difference between heart rate and blood pressure
B) Difference between systolic and diastolic pressure, reflecting stroke volume
C) Blood volume
D) None of the above
**Answer: B) Difference between systolic and diastolic pressure, reflecting stroke volume**
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### 11. What factors affect blood pressure?
A) Heart rate only
B) Cardiac output, peripheral resistance, blood volume, viscosity, elasticity of vessel walls
C) Age
D) None of the above
**Answer: B) Cardiac output, peripheral resistance, blood volume, viscosity, elasticity of vessel walls**
### 12. Why is thigh pressure measured?
A) To check for obesity
B) To check for coarctation of the aorta
C) To assess muscle strength
D) None of the above
**Answer: B) To check for coarctation of the aorta**
### 13. What are the two main pathways of pain?
A) Physical and emotional
B) Nociceptive and neuropathic
C) Chronic and acute
D) None of the above
**Answer: B) Nociceptive and neuropathic**
### 14. What are nociceptors?
A) Receptors for temperature
B) Sensory receptors that perceive pain from harmful stimuli
C) Receptors for touch
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