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MN 551 Patho Exam Questions and Answers 2023
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MN 551 Patho Exam Questions andAnswers 2023
Which of the following factors is most responsible for the fact that prefrontal
lobotomy is no longer a common treatment for mental illness? - -Individuals
treated by lobotomy have difficulty interpreting somatic, visual, and auditory
information.
Lobotomy inhibits the individual's ability to add perception and meaning to
sensory information.
******Severing connections between the brain and its prefrontal areas
inhibits problem solving and results in a loss of ambition.
Loss of communication to and from the prefrontal cortex changes, but
ultimately exacerbates, symptoms of mental illness.
-Which of the following questions is most likely to be clinically useful in the
differential diagnosis of sensorineural versus conductive hearing loss? - -
*******"What medications do you currently take?"
"What effect is this hearing loss having on your quality of life?"
"Has your hearing loss developed quickly or more slowly?"
"Do you ever hear a persistent ringing in your ears?"
-Four weeks ago, an 83-year-old male fractured his femoral head in a fall
that was caused by orthostatic hypotension. His care provider has stated
that the healing process is occurring at a reasonable pace, and that the man
will regain full function after healing and rehabilitation. Which of the
following cells are most responsible for restoring the integrity of the man's
broken bone? - -Osteocytes
Osteoclasts
*******Osteoblasts
Osteomas
-Which of the following individuals demonstrates a health problem with his
or her axial skeleton? - -A 21-year-old male who fractured his humerus while
snowboarding
, *******A 40-year-old man who has a contusion to the left temporal bone of
his skull following a motor vehicle accident
A 79-year-old female who has undergone hemiarthroplasty (hip replacement
surgery)
A 30-year-old pregnant woman who has a separated pubic symphysis
-Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes an aspect
of the neurobiology of sleep? - -The hypothalamus stimulates the anterior
and posterior pituitary to modulate sleeping-waking cycles.
The pituitary releases melatonin at predictable points in the circadian rhythm
in order to facilitate sleep.
The reticular formation, thalamus, and cerebral cortex interact to integrate
the sleep-wake cycle.
Input from the retinas is interpreted by the cerebellum and contributes to
maintenance of the circadian rhythm.
-A woman with severe visual and auditory deficits is able to identify
individuals by running her fingers lightly over their face. Which of the
following sources is most likely to provide the input that allows for the
woman's ability? - -Pacinian corpuscles
Ruffini end organs
*******Meissner corpuscles
Free nerve endings
-Which of the following patients on a hospital medical unit is most clearly
demonstrating the signs and symptoms of liver failure? - -*******A 44-year-
old man with low hemoglobin levels, low platelet levels, and spider angiomas
A 50-year-old woman with blood pressure of 189/103, jaundice, and multiple
thromboses
A 68-year-old female patient with sudden onset of confusion, a history of
alcohol abuse, and low levels of serum AST and ALT
A 55-year-old man with ascites, fever, and recent onset of atrial fibrillation
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