NUR 231 Exam Questions With Verified Answers 2024/2025
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NUR 231
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NUR 231
NUR 231 Exam Questions With Verified Answers 2024/2025
The system responsible for an individual's emotional and behavioral responses to pain is the?
motivational/affective system
A 55 year old male presented to his doctor complaining of severe headache. Investigative
tests suggested his pai...
NUR 231 Exam Questions With Verified
Answers 2024/2025
The system responsible for an individual's emotional and behavioral responses to pain is the?
motivational/affective system
A 55 year old male presented to his doctor complaining of severe headache. Investigative
tests suggested his pain was psychogenic in nature. Why?
This type of pain appears to have no underlying pathology
The pain that occurs to a stimulus such as light stroking that normally does not provoke
pain is termed?
allodynia
Pain that is felt in a different body part to the source of the pain is called?
referred pain
Chronic pain is pain that has lasted longer than?
3 months
A 20 year old female pricked her left hand while sewing: which area in her brain would
have received the pain signal s and perceived them as pain?
right somatosensory cortex
Inflammation in visceral tissues activates?
Silent nociceptors
Which one of the following is an excitatory neuromodulator that enhances pain
transmission? Beta endorphin, encephalin, substance P, dynorphin
Substance P
A 15-year-old female scrapes her knee while playing soccer and complains of sharp and
well-localized pain. What would most accurately characterise her pain?
Somatic pain
A 50-year-old male crushed his hand while working in a sawmill. Long after his injury
has healed he still feels burning pain in his hand. This pain is referred to as?
Neuropathic pain
The lowest intensity that of a stimulus that is perceived as painful is termed?
Pain threshold
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